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After Anthony Forde's free-kick had hit the post, the visitors went up the other end to seize a 17th-minute lead through Ash Fletcher's low effort.
Walsall top scorer Tom Bradshaw poked in to level by half-time for the hosts.
But Barnsley then scored twice in six minutes, Josh Brownhill's dipping drive beating Neil Etheridge before Harry Chapman sealed it with a low drive.
The Saddlers, who have now failed to win in six home games at Bescot since the turn of the year, sit fourth in the table, five points behind second-placed Wigan.
Barnsley's 11th win in 13 league games lifts them up into the play-off zone into sixth, after leapfrogging over Coventry City, who are three points behind.
Walsall head coach Sean O Driscoll told BBC WM:
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"A disappointing result. They're a really good team. If you give them two goals it's going to be difficult for you.
"First half, we were excellent. We were the best team. Their goalkeeper's kept them in it and they scored against the run of play.
"We got back into the game, created chances and came in at half time extremely confident that we could go on and win." | Walsall's League One promotion hopes took another blow as in-form Barnsley left them without a win in six games. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35675595"} | 297 | 29 | 0.472851 | 1.06421 | -0.322317 | 0.826087 | 11.130435 | 0.565217 |
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The Welsh fighter, 24, was beaten 14-8 by the home favourite in South Korea.
There were also bronze medals for Bradly Sinden and Damon Sansum on the final day of competition in Muju.
It means the British team have gained a record five medals at the 2017 Worlds, beating their previous best of four, achieved in 2011.
Jones, who won a world silver in 2011, was guaranteed a bronze for reaching the -57kg semi-finals - but her wait to complete a career grand slam continues.
She holds the European Championships, European Games and World Grand Prix titles.
"Sometimes you lose and I just have to go away from here and train hard get better," Jones told BBC Sport.
"I'm obviously saving it for the big occasion in Manchester for the Worlds [in 2019].
"I just wasn't me. I didn't fight as well as I normally fight and I just didn't pressure enough. I didn't do enough."
Former European junior champion Sinden took bronze in the -63kg category after losing his semi-final to China's Zhao Shuai 29-43.
The 18-year-old, ranked 62 in the world, had qualified for the last four by beating the defending world champion in the division, Belgium's Jaouad Achab.
"I know I've still got a lot of work to do, but seeing as I've only been in the academy for 11 months and it's my first senior World champs, to come away with a medal is a great feeling," said Sinden.
Sansum secured bronze after winning through to the -80kg semi-finals, but was defeated on golden point by Russia's Anton Kotkov.
The former Scottish world kickboxing champion, who won world taekwondo silver in 2015, defeated Nurlan Myrzabayev of Kazakhstan 21-8 in the quarter-finals.
The world number 104 had knocked out the Olympic champion Cheick Cisse in the previous round.
"I'm gutted at the moment because I knew I could win gold today," he told BBC Sport.
"Coming back from the devastation of missing out on selection for Rio 2016 and then having surgery on both hips in January of this year has been tough.
"With that in mind, I have to take some positives from the result - and from getting a second successive World medal, which no GB man has done before. But I'll be back fighting for gold next time."
Former Team GB fighter Aaron Cook, who defected to Moldova after his controversial omission from the London 2012 Olympic squad, was also eliminated in the -80kg semi-final to finish with bronze.
Rachelle Booth won bronze at the last World Championships in 2015, but there was to be no repeat of that success.
After a bye in the first round, she opened her account with a 17-11 win over China's Zhou Meiling, but Ivory Coast fighter Ruth Gbagbi proved too strong - winning their round-of-16 encounter 15-6. | Double Olympic champion Jade Jones took a bronze medal in the World Taekwondo Championships after losing in the semi-finals to Lee Ah-reum on Friday. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40454459"} | 686 | 39 | 0.390397 | 1.012571 | 0.239469 | 1.482759 | 20.827586 | 0.793103 |
The 28-year-old Edinburgh player was forced off after 24 minutes in Saturday's 29-13 triumph over Wales at Murrayfield.
And the Scotland medical team have confirmed Hardie has damaged his medial collateral ligament (MCL) and is expected to be out for several weeks.
Tommy Seymour took a knock in the match but is "not considered a concern".
Hardie, who came on as a replacement and went off with a head knock after just four minutes during the defeat in France, joins a long list of Scotland injury victims.
Alasdair Dickinson, WP Nel, Sean Maitland, Duncan Taylor, captain Greig Laidlaw and Josh Strauss had already been ruled out of the championship.
Scotland started their campaign with a win over Ireland and are still in the title hunt after recovering from the defeat in Paris with the victory over Wales.
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Councillors paved the way for the order and collect store - at the Wellington Road industrial estate - last month.
Ikea hopes the store - which will also have a cafe - will be ready to open in Spring next year, subject to final approvals.
Recruitment of about 30 staff is now under way. | An image of a planned first Ikea store for Aberdeen has been released, as the Swedish furniture retailer begins recruiting staff. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34527595"} | 68 | 25 | 0.609286 | 1.221616 | -0.32865 | 0.391304 | 2.608696 | 0.391304 |
Sean Heiss, 30, from Surbiton, is accused of strangling 58-year-old Margaret Sheehy at her home in Springfield Road, Kingston, in 2012.
Ms Sheehy was found dead the day before Mr Heiss used her credit card to travel to Europe by Eurostar, the Old Bailey heard.
Mr Heiss denies murdering Ms Sheehy on 11 June 2012.
Prosecutor Sarah Plaschkes QC told the jury Mr Heiss went on to use his mother's bank cards in San Sebastian before being extradited from Spain to stand trial.
Ms Sheehy, a telemarketing executive, had been planning to sell her flat and live mortgage-free in Bournemouth or Spain, the court heard.
The jury was told she had considered paying off some of Mr Heiss' debts after he had had some financial difficulties and was living on benefits.
However, the mother-of-two told colleagues she had changed her mind and was going to stay in her flat and continue working, the jury heard.
Mr Heiss, who had resigned from a job at Waitrose, was £200 overdrawn in one bank account and had £2.82 in his current account, the court heard.
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The 47-year-old from Royton, Oldham was among 22 people who died in the suicide bombing at Manchester Arena on 22 May.
She was killed while waiting in the foyer to pick up her daughter with her friend, Alison Howe, who also died and whose funeral took place earlier at the same church - St Anne's in Oldham.
Her daughter India said she was the "best mum in the universe".
Mrs Lees' mother, Elaine Hunter, said: "You were an inspiration to all and should have had a great life ahead of you... don't know how we will go on without you but I know you would want us to."
Hundreds of mourners lined the street as the white and pink butterfly-adorned coffin arrived, pulled by two white horses.
Beside the coffin, white roses were arranged to spell the words "mum" and "daughter".
Mrs Lees' husband Anthony and her two daughters, India and Lauren, were comforted by the vicar outside the church.
The service heard how she had worked at Oldham College as a beauty tutor and recently studied for a degree.
The Revd James Read said: "She had so many plans for the future but she was taken on that awful, awful day."
Lisa's husband Anthony cuddled daughters India and Lauren as their mother's coffin was brought out from the horse-drawn hearse.
Many people attended the funerals of both Lisa and her friend Alison Howe. They died together in the arena foyer as they waited for their two youngest daughters.
Alison's daughter Darcy, 15, was wrapped in a jacket and hugged by her stepbrother as Lisa's coffin was brought out.
Pearl Jam's song 'Black' rang out over loud speakers as many people left the church.
Dozens of single red roses and pink carnations were then thrown into the air and over the hearse as it pulled away.
In a sign of solidarity, both families are meeting for a picnic later to "honour two angels who represented the best of us".
He read a tribute from Lauren that said: "Our mum was not just a mum, she was also our best friend.
"As long as we have each other, part of her will be always with us.
"She will live in our hearts forever."
Mrs Lees had been with her husband Anthony for 23 years. He said she was "the best wife a man can have". | Mourners gathered clutching single blooms at the funeral of Lisa Lees, who was killed in the Manchester attack. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40368638"} | 539 | 28 | 0.476159 | 1.316122 | -0.136326 | 1.2 | 24.5 | 0.8 |
But many residents are concerned it could create too much pressure on the town's infrastructure and lead to major traffic problems.
The town, which has a population of 31,000, was previously notable for the former US Air Force base in nearby Upper Heyford but in recent years it has grown rapidly.
Commuters are attracted by its location just off junction nine of the M40 and good train links to London, Birmingham and Oxford.
Bicester Village - a retail outlet - is also a major draw and last week police warned motorists to avoid the area as its roads had become gridlocked with Black Friday shoppers.
Carla Thomas, who lives in the town, said: "Providing they build the infrastructure first and get the new shopping facilities in, the new schools, they sort the roads out around Bicester, if they do that first I have absolutely no problem.
"But if they don't, it's already chaos - look at what happened on Black Friday with Bicester Village. That isn't a singular occurrence, it was just the worst day.
"That happens every weekend, and if you go and shove 13,000 new homes here you just make it worse.
"People have got to live somewhere, I don't want to see people without homes. It's a nice place to live, but I don't want it to reach the point where we can't get out."
Helen Bramley, who was born in Bicester, said she was also concerned about more traffic.
"Before they consider this, they've got to improve the infrastructure because the roads at the moment can't even cope with the current traffic.
"It was a small market town with a lot of character.
"It's growing too fast, but I like the prospect of bringing more employment into the town."
The garden city planning concept, by Sir Ebenezer Howard, was first used to create Letchworth Garden City at the start of the 20th century and Welwyn Garden City in the 1920s.
The concept was adopted again when the New Towns Act resulted in the development of new communities following World War Two.
The new communities were created to deal with an accommodation shortage caused by bomb damage, stagnation in the construction industry, returning service personnel and a baby boom.
They were called Garden Cities because their layouts included large amounts of green space.
Two years ago the government commissioned a report on the possibility of using Garden Cities to help deal with the housing shortage.
Chancellor George Osborne announced funding earlier this year to create Ebbsfleet Garden City in Kent.
Helen Marshall, of the Oxfordshire branch of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, said many people in the area would have mixed feelings.
"It may bring relief for some of the infrastructure problems and it might be good for the local economy but, at the same time, they don't want to lose the character of the town as it stands or the fact that it is in a rural setting surrounded by very lovely rural villages - so it's going to be a balance," she said.
Lynne Pratt, Mayor of Bicester, said she hoped a larger town would result in more jobs.
"A lot of people commute out of Bicester these days for work," she said.
"Let's try and get some more jobs here, perhaps more high spec jobs, so that people can stay in the town that they live in."
Edward Aimsworth, who lives in the town, echoed the mayor's hopes.
He said: "I've nothing against it as long as they bring employment with it.
"We don't want all the new houses there and nowhere for people to work. They've got to go hand in glove haven't they?"
Bicester resident Manpreet Singh said he thought the homes should go on the Calvert or Fringford side of town.
He said: "I think there's going to be more problems for the traffic. There are international people coming here for Bicester Village, so if they keep extending the town like that it will get worse.
"Garden cities, green cities, they're alright, but extending into the villages makes them more like cities so that's not very good because I like 'old England'.
"It is a booming town. There loads of things happening and people are getting more into entertainment. There are media students here who see it as a happening, lively town."
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The bank said net profit rose to $3.34bn (£2.43bn) compared with $344m in the last quarter of 2014 when it paid $3.5bn in legal and other charges.
The bank's legal and repositioning costs fell to $724m for this quarter.
Citi - which is undergoing a restructuring - is the third largest US bank when ranked by assets.
The picture at Citi echoed that at JP Morgan Chase, which reported results on Thursday. Profits there also jumped thanks to lower legal expenses and better cost control.
Citigroup has been restructuring to focus on more profitable businesses and markets, and has closed consumer operations in 11 overseas markets.
Operating expenses fell 23% to $11bn, partly thanks to the fall in legal-related costs.
Chief executive, Michael Corbat, said: "We have undoubtedly become a simpler, smaller, safer and stronger institution.
"We have sharpened our focus on target clients, shedding over 20 consumer and institutional businesses in the process."
Citi's shares were down 5% in early trading on Wall Street.
The US's biggest mortgage lender, Wells Fargo, also released results on Friday.
It reported a 0.8% fall in profits for the final quarter of 2015 to $5.34bn after it set aside more to cover bad loans.
However, mortgage banking revenue rose 9.6% to $1.66bn, the first quarterly rise all year.
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Geoffrey Sturdey, of Beth Berith, Tregaron, Ceredigion, was 60 when he disappeared in October 2008.
His widow Rebekah Sturdey, 56, and friend Boqer-Ore Adie, 43, admitted preventing his burial and fraudulently claiming £77,318 of his benefits.
Karmel Adie, 25, was given a suspended sentence for preventing his burial.
All three are from Beth Berith, Tregaron.
Swansea Crown Court heard the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) began investigating after staff noticed money in Boqer-Ore Adie's account exceeded her benefits amount.
Between October 2008 and 2012 Boqer-Ore Adie and Sturdey unlawfully claimed £21,718 in disability living allowances, £9,415 in carer's allowance, £10,143 income support and £36,041 in pension credits.
Sturdey, who was referred to in court as Ladan rather than Rebekah, told investigators her husband had left the country to travel Europe.
But the investigators later found he did not have a valid passport.
A specialist team of officers searched land at Beth Berith last year and found Mr Sturdey's body buried near a rockery.
He had died of natural causes.
More than £6,000 in cash and handwritten notes were also found indicating the time and date of his death.
The documents claimed Mr Sturdey had chosen his own burial plot and the women buried him in it immediately after his death.
Shortly after he died Boqer-Ore Adie made inquiries about buying gold worth £15,000, the court was told.
The women were arrested in June 2013 and refused to co-operate with police.
Christopher James, defending Sturdey, said the widow had expressed remorse and regret for her actions.
Carina Hughes, representing Boqer Ore-Adie, said the women simply intended to carry out Mr Sturdey's wishes.
Judge Paul Thomas said the pair had taken advantage of Mr Sturdey's death to claim benefits they were not entitled to.
"Whatever your intention for burying on your land without notifying the authorities, it gave you the opportunity to enrich yourself at the expense of the rest of us," he said.
"Although there is no suggestion of foul play, there is a clear public interest in deterring people from acting as you have, the three of you.
"His body was only discovered after an expensive police search, with you three having refused to co-operate.
"You could have said quite easily said where his body was to save the public from even more expense."
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The U's lie bottom of League Two after a winless start to their campaign.
"It's as clear as day, we've got a football club that's expecting more and I fully accept that," the 38-year-old told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
"I understand that, for support to be heard, fans want to be looking at a performance level that's high, that's the pressure that we've got."
Cambridge face Morecambe, who sit seventh in the league, on Saturday.
"It's the first time we've really got our strongest squad available to us," Derry added.
"We are hopeful we can do this all together and change the fortune of our football club because no one likes to see us at the bottom of the league." | Cambridge United manager Shaun Derry has called for patience from fans following a poor start to the season. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37373651"} | 171 | 23 | 0.549757 | 1.156535 | -0.19197 | 0.578947 | 8.368421 | 0.473684 |
Well, there is a good argument that the answer is not a newspaper or broadcasting organisation but a social network, Facebook.
After all, it has 1.6 billion users and is becoming an ever more important place for them to share news. More than 40% of the population of the United States say they get news on Facebook - and for many it is where they go to share and comment on stories.
Stories like this - "Pope Francis Shocks World, Endorses Donald Trump for President", "Barack Obama Admits He Was Born in Kenya", or "Trump said in 1998 'If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters in the country'."
What all of those stories had in common was that they were completely made up. That did not stop them being shared by millions of Facebook users.
Whoever created this torrent of untruth probably had two motives - to cause mischief and to make a large amount of cash through the adverts that are the lifeblood of Facebook and the businesses which live off what it describes as its ecosystem.
But they also succeeded in unleashing a debate about fake news and whether the internet, far from spreading enlightenment as its creators once hoped, was leaving us worse informed.
At first Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg appeared unwilling to engage with that debate, dismissing the idea that fake news could have swung the presidential election as "crazy".
But it soon became clear that this position was untenable and that even inside Facebook there was plenty of agonising going on over its role in fakery.
Some days later Mr Zuckerberg took to - you've guessed it - Facebook to share some good news. "We've been working on this problem a long time and take this responsibility seriously," he wrote.
Mr Zuckerberg detailed plans to identify untrue stories and, in his words, disrupt the economics of fake news by making sure that it did not benefit from advertising.
Of course Facebook is trying to apply a new technology solution to an age-old problem, hoping it can come up with an algorithm which will sift truth from falsehood.
We used to think that was a job for editors, so maybe journalists need to take a long hard look at their own profession before being too sniffy about the ethics of social media firms.
But Mr Zuckerberg's change of heart seemed to show that he now realises he is an extremely powerful editor - and that with this comes weighty responsibilities as well as huge power.
But earlier this week up popped a story in my Facebook feed. "Facebook worked on special software so it could potentially accommodate censorship demands in China," it said.
Surely fake, I thought - would a company dedicated to truth really be developing a tool which would allow the Chinese authorities to suppress it? But then I saw the report was from the venerable New York Times and Facebook was not denying it, merely saying that it was "spending time understanding and learning more" about China.
We know that Mr Zuckerberg does have a deep interest in China - he has been learning Mandarin after all.
And Facebook is not alone among Western technology firms in wrestling with the dilemma of wanting access to this lucrative market while holding on to some of their values of free expression.
The same can be said of a few media organisations - 20 years ago Rupert Murdoch opted not to publish a book critical of China at a time when his satellite TV empire was trying to expand there.
I am not entirely sure that Mark Zuckerberg would like the comparison, but in many ways he is shaping up to be the Murdoch of the next 20 years. A global media tycoon, with great sway over how we understand our world.
And one with commercial incentives to shape the news to suit all sorts of different views of what is truth and what is fake.
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Batty's side are top of Division One, with one win and two draws from their opening County Championship matches.
He is now hoping they can continue the momentum when they begin their One-Day Cup campaign at Somerset on Friday.
"We're traditionally a club that starts slowly, so I'm really proud of the management and the lads for flying out of the gates," the 40-year-old said.
"We've really started at a gallop. The challenge will be to see if we can sustain it until the end of the season."
Surrey opened their season with a crushing win over Warwickshire, before high-scoring draws against Lancashire and the Bears took them top with 45 points.
Having made a positive start in the County Championship, attention now shifts to the One-Day Cup, with a block of eight fixtures scheduled over the next three weeks.
Surrey have finished runners-up in the last two seasons in the 50-over format, losing out to Gloucestershire in 2015 and Warwickshire last season.
However, with new additions Scott Borthwick and Mark Stoneman having settled in alongside Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara, Batty believes his squad are better equipped this campaign.
The off-spinner is even hopeful they can benefit from the new fixture schedule and improve on fifth in the County Championship and a T20 Blast group stage exit in 2016 to become the first side since Warwickshire in 1994 to win three competitions.
"I believe we're in a pretty good place across all facets of the game," he told BBC's Test Match Special podcast. "Can it ever be done again? I don't think so, but if anybody has a chance, I believe we do have a good chance.
"The Royal London One-Day Cup is done in July, so if you play well early in the season you could tick that one off.
"Then you have a bit more of the Twenty20 competition, which shouldn't be affecting your four-day stuff. So you can get that right, maybe tick it off, then you've got four games in four weeks to hopefully get you over the line in red ball cricket."
The county season moves into another phase with the next three-week period now dedicated to the One-Day Cup.
There will be extra interest with most England players involved ahead of the ODIs against Ireland and South Africa and the ICC Champions Trophy - for which the squad was announced on Tuesday.
The group stage ends on 17 May with a break before the quarter-finals on 13 June, the semi-finals on 16 and 17 June and the final scheduled for Lord's on Saturday, 1 July.
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The boat, the Hokule'a, took three years to journey around the globe.
Its crew navigated without modern instruments, using only the stars, wind and ocean swells as guides.
They aimed to use the same techniques that brought the first Polynesian settlers to Hawaii hundreds of years ago.
Hawaii celebrated the Hokule'a's homecoming on Honolulu's Magic Island peninsula on Saturday.
Built in the 1970s, it has travelled around 40,000 nautical miles (74,000km) on this latest trip, known as the Malama Honua voyage, meaning "to care for our Island Earth".
Its aim has been to spread a message about ocean conservation, sustainability and protecting indigenous culture.
"Hokule'a has sparked a reawakening of Hawaiian culture, language, identity and revitalized voyaging and navigation traditions throughout the Pacific Ocean," said the voyage organisers on their website.
Naalehu Anthony, crewmember and chief executive director of Hawaiian media company Oiwi TV which documented the trip, told Hawaii Public Radio that wherever they docked, people greeted them with a Hawaiian "Aloha" greeting.
"One of the things I really admire about the voyage, looking back on it, is that we always asked the first nations peoples from these different places for permission to come. We never said we are coming. We said, would it be OK for us to come and honour the native people of this place," he said.
The voyage, he added, had been an "opportunity to celebrate native knowledge and look at ways that we are more common than we are different". | A traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe has returned to Honolulu in Hawaii, completing the first-ever round-the-world trip by such a vessel. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40316930"} | 364 | 42 | 0.513964 | 1.278363 | 0.158543 | 0.607143 | 10.785714 | 0.535714 |
A spate of assaults in the Scotch Street area of the city are thought to be linked.
The first, on 19 February, involved a 65-year-old woman who was slapped on her head after sneezing. On 17 March an 82-year-old woman was also attacked.
Cumbria Police described the incidents as "unique" and want to speak to a man captured on camera.
A force spokesman added: "The offender is assaulting innocent members of the public and that sort of behaviour will not be tolerated.
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Eight stations including Stratford and West Ham have been rezoned from Zone 3 to Zone 2/3.
It means the stations will be regarded in Zone 2 or 3 depending on which way the passenger is travelling, giving the cheapest travel option for the journey.
The Mayor of London said it was hoped 100,000 people per week would benefit from the change.
How a Zone 2/3 boundary station works
According to Transport for London a passenger would always pay the cheapest fare depending on which direction they were travelling in.
For example, if they were travelling from Zone 6 to Stratford they would pay a Zone 3-6 fare, whereas if they were travelling to or from Zone 1 from Stratford they would pay a Zone 1-2 fare.
The other stations that have been rezoned are Stratford High Street, Stratford International DLR station, West Ham, Canning Town, Star Lane and Abbey Road.
Sir Robin Wales, the Mayor of Newham, said: "We've been campaigning for this for some time. The truth is London's moving eastwards... and it's sensible to reduce the cost of travel.
"It's going to encourage people to come to Stratford, West Ham and Canning Town, which will be great."
Transport for London has made the changes as part of its 2016 plans, which include a ticket price hike of 1% in line with the July Retail Price Index and enabling children to travel for free on National Rail services in the capital.
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The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranked Singapore as the priciest ahead of Zurich, Hong Kong, Geneva and Paris.
London was sixth and New York seventh on the list that compares the cost of a basket of goods across 133 cities.
The cheapest were Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, followed by Bangalore and Mumbai in India, the EIU said.
The EIU charts the expense of cities by comparing them to the cost of living in New York.
Although Singapore was the most expensive, the cost of living there was 10% cheaper when compared to New York than was the case in the EIU survey a year ago.
Researchers said they saw considerable movement in the rankings as cities coped with economic factors ranging from the strength of the US dollar and currency devaluations to falling oil and commodity prices and geopolitical uncertainty.
"In nearly 17 years of working on this survey I can't recall a year as volatile as 2015," said Jon Copestake, an editor of the survey,
"Falling commodity prices have created deflationary pressures in some countries, but in others currency weakness caused by these falls has led to spiralling inflation."
The EIU said India and Pakistan accounted for five of the 10 least expensive cities in the world. | Singapore has again been judged as the world's most expensive city but costs across the world have been highly volatile, according to researchers. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35765378"} | 275 | 29 | 0.634907 | 1.579412 | 0.543327 | 0.884615 | 9.346154 | 0.653846 |
The 2.4m-high bronze statue, which will stand in Bellies Brae car park, is due to be unveiled at the annual Bonfest event in April.
AC/DC backed the fundraising campaign to commemorate the singer who died in 1980, aged 33.
The council has received over 80 letters of support for the new statue. | Plans for a statue of Angus-born AC/DC singer Bon Scott in his home town of Kirriemuir have been approved by councillors. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35413130"} | 71 | 37 | 0.747976 | 1.547169 | -0.550295 | 0.653846 | 2.461538 | 0.423077 |
The country's Economic Survey, released on the eve of the national budget, said the measures had slowed growth.
The dramatic move to scrap 500 ($7.60) and 1,000 rupee notes was intended to crack down on corruption and so-called black money or illegal cash holdings.
But it also led to a cash shortage, hurting individuals and businesses.
The report forecast that India's economy would grow 6.5% in the year to March 2017, down from 7.6% the previous financial year.
But it also stressed that the estimate was based "mainly" on data from before the note withdrawal kicked in - causing some to suspect growth may be lower still.
India's Finance minister Arun Jaitley who will deliver the Union budget in Delhi on Wednesday, said he expected the economy to "revert to normal" from March onwards after supplies of cash in the economy were replenished.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the so-called "demonetisation" policy on November 8 last year.
Within hours the two notes were no longer accepted as legal tender - taking the equivalent of about 86% of India's cash supplies out of circulation and sparking scenes of chaos outside banks and cash machines.
Low-income Indians, traders and ordinary savers who rely on the cash economy were badly hit, with hordes thronging banks to deposit expired money and withdraw lower denominations.
"The adverse impact... on GDP will be transitional", the government's chief economic adviser, Arvind Subramanian, wrote in the report.
"Growth slowed as demonetisation reduced demand ... and increased uncertainty," he added, saying negative impacts included including job losses and falling income for farmers.
However the report said the scheme could be "beneficial in the long-run" if corruption fell and there were fewer cash transactions - many of which are done to dodge taxes.
The government has previously said the move was a success with the banks flush with cash and significant increases in tax collection.
"It's very nice to understand that the survey is acknowledging the negative impact," said Aneesh Srivatava, chief investment officer at IDBI Federal.
"This is perhaps the first acknowledgement coming from the government. Otherwise so far there has been a denial."
Deadlines for spending the notes or swapping them for new currency have already passed.
Some people, including those of Indian origin living abroad, will be able to exchange the notes in branches of India's central bank until 31 March 2017 - but the process will be more complicated than going to a regular bank. | India's controversial withdrawal of high value banknotes late last year has had an "adverse impact" on the economy, the government has admitted. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38807695"} | 560 | 33 | 0.498148 | 1.188346 | 0.573513 | 1.333333 | 18.444444 | 0.740741 |
The conductors work on New Routemaster buses, introduced in a blaze of publicity by ex-mayor Boris Johnson.
The changes mean passengers will no longer be able to board the buses by hopping on/ hopping off.
TfL claimed having conductors on board made only a "modest difference" to customer satisfaction.
The conductors will disappear from six bus routes; numbers 9, 10, 11, 24, 38 and 390.
They are employed by operators Arriva, Go-Ahead, Metroline and RATP. TfL pledged to work with those companies to provide support and information on job opportunities for sacked conductors elsewhere.
The New Routemaster buses were a flagship transport policy of former London mayor Boris Johnson and were used as a political tool during his 2008 election campaign.
Criticisms were made over the cost of the new buses and there were problems with their hybrid engines and non-opening windows.
However, BBC Transport correspondent Tom Edwards said Londoners had a "begrudging affection" for them.
A small number of Heritage Routemaster buses on route 15 will continue to operate with conductors.
The role of conductor on the new buses was more for safety as they didn't sell tickets. They made sure passengers didn't hurt themselves jumping on and off the rear platform.
Now 300 of them will lose their jobs.
They were introduced by the mayor Boris Johnson, but now he's gone the flagship projects of the former mayor do not have as much political protection.
We are also seeing the start of big cuts at TfL, with its operational grant from the government cut by £591m in 2018.
Meanwhile the new mayor's TfL fares freeze will cost £600m, and on Friday there was a redundancy trawl for senior managers.
So this won't be the last cuts we see. What is a big surprise though is that front-line staff are seeing the cuts so soon. That will inevitably lead to political fall-out. | Three hundred London bus conductors are to lose their jobs to make savings of £10m a year, Transport for London (TfL) has announced. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36764417"} | 430 | 34 | 0.482722 | 1.185147 | -0.136443 | 0.896552 | 13.137931 | 0.689655 |
The 30-year-old's arrest, by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Counter Terrorism Command, was followed by searches in Larne and Devon.
The pre-planned operation involved several UK police forces, including the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
It is understood MI5 is also involved in the operation in England.
Following the arrest on Wednesday afternoon, police in Devon searched a house in Exminster and a wooded area nearby, while the PSNI has carried out searches at a least two houses in on the Old Glenarm Road in Larne.
It is understood the operation is connected to the discovery of two arms dumps near Larne earlier this year, which were suspected to be linked to dissident republican paramilitaries.
In March, the PSNI said they had uncovered a "significant terrorist hide" of bomb-making components and explosives at Carnfunnock Country Park.
In May, a second significant arms cache, including an armour-piercing improvised rocket and two anti-personnel mines, was found at Capanagh Forest, near Larne.
The man under arrest is suspected of being involved in preparing for acts of terrorism
He is being held at a West Country police station.
Police said the arrest was pre-planned and intelligence-led as part of a collaboration between the Met, the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the South West Counter Terrorism Intelligence Unit.
The arrest was made at 12:20 BST by Met detectives supported by officers from Avon and Somerset and Devon and Cornwall Police.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence said: "We are aware of a police investigation involving the arrest of a member of the armed forces under the 2000 Terrorism Act and will assist this investigation fully.
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Brigid Jones, cabinet member for education and social services, said she was told a procedure did not exist for someone in her role.
Ms Jones, a councillor since 2011, branded the situation "ridiculous".
Birmingham City Council said it was looking at introducing a policy.
Ms Jones, who was 26 years old when appointed to the council's cabinet in 2013, said she was thinking about starting a family and had enquired about her rights.
The Labour councillor said she was told there was no provision for maternity arrangements attached to her £41,696.75 a year job.
More updates on this and other stories in Birmingham
"I was told there isn't a policy and I'd most likely have to step down from my position if I were to have a child," she said.
"Obviously I thought this was ridiculous. I talked to the chief executive [Mark Rogers] and he thought it was ridiculous. He's now working on a policy."
Ms Jones, a councillor for the Selly Oak Ward, said she also felt that "the job of a councillor is from the dark ages."
Some of the constitutions for other major city authorities do not always have a clear policy on maternity rules for cabinet members.
Yet some, like the London Borough of Hackney, have included the policy in their constitution and the cabinet member's position will be filled on a temporary basis, as it would in any job.
But this approach is not put into writing everywhere.
Of course, this may have not been so much of a prevalent issue in the past. But with the number of women under 40 becoming councillors on the rise, it looks like it now has to be looked at by many councils.
And with Birmingham's history on gender equality - it was hit with a huge legal action over equal pay for female workers - the council will be keen to make sure it doesn't get this wrong.
She said the role had not moved with the times and was not representative of the main population.
"We haven't had a pregnant cabinet member in a very long time in Birmingham, so it actually hasn't been an issue before," she said.
"That's how unrepresentative things have been, but I have had assurances that things will change which I do believe."
Sam Smethers, from the Fawcett Society, the UK's largest membership charity for women's rights, said the political system regards councillors as effectively self-employed, so they did not have the same rights as someone who was employed and called for reform.
"We've got these big cabinet roles which effectively are full-time jobs in themselves and yet the policies around them, the procedures around them really haven't caught up with that," she said.
He said a third of all councillors were women, with only 15% of council leaders being female. | The councillor in charge of Birmingham's children's services was told she would probably have to step down if she became pregnant - because the council has no maternity policy. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37587188"} | 629 | 39 | 0.543745 | 1.452503 | 0.363456 | 1.46875 | 17.875 | 0.84375 |
Susan Benstead, 72, was given a two-year suspended jail term for money laundering in June 2015 for her part in the Crown Currency fraud.
She has now been ordered to pay £868,580 in a proceeds of crime hearing at Southwark Crown Court.
A hearing is under way for the former mayor of Glastonbury, Edward James.
More on the Crown Currency scammer, and other Cornwall news
Crown Currency collapsed in October 2010, owing clients a total of £20m.
Up to 12,500 people are believed to have lost money, the court heard.
Benstead's trial at the same court in 2015 heard she used £900,000 of customers' money to buy a luxury home in Cornwall.
Her husband Peter, 72, killed himself during the trial.
She and James were two of five people found guilty of offences connected to Crown Currency's collapse.
Crown Currency, based in Hayle, was one of the UK's largest personal currency exchange businesses.
It allowed individuals and business customers to pre-order foreign exchange at a set price up to a year in advance.
It provided money in 80 currencies, as well as travellers' cheques and money transfers. | A woman involved in a multi-million pound foreign exchange scam has been told to pay more than £850,000 to her victims. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40485513"} | 250 | 29 | 0.542659 | 1.179212 | -0.249469 | 0.84 | 9.28 | 0.6 |
He located genes that regulate the cellular "self eating" process known as autophagy.
Dr Ohsumi's work is important because it helps explain what goes wrong in a range of illnesses, from cancer to Parkinson's.
Errors in these genes cause disease.
Last year's prize was shared by three scientists who developed treatments for malaria and other tropical diseases.
The body destroying its own cells may not sound like a good thing. But autophagy is a natural defence that our bodies use to survive.
It allows the body to cope with starvation and fight off invading bacteria and viruses, for example.
And it clears away old junk to make way for new cells.
Failure of autophagy is linked with many diseases of old age, including dementia.
Research is now ongoing to develop drugs that can target autophagy in various diseases, including cancer.
The concept of autophagy has been known for over 50 years, but it wasn't until Dr Ohsumi began studying and experimenting with baker's yeast in the 80s and 90s that the breakthrough in understanding was made.
Dr Ohsumi is reported to be surprised about receiving his Nobel Prize, but "extremely honoured".
Speaking with the Japanese broadcaster NHK he said that the human body "is always repeating the auto-decomposition process, or cannibalism, and there is a fine balance between formation and decomposition. That's what life is about."
Prof David Rubinsztein, an expert in autophagy at the University of Cambridge, said he was delighted that Dr Ohsumi's vital work had been recognised and rewarded.
"His pioneering work in yeast led to the discovery of the key genes and fundamental biochemical processes that are required for autophagy.
"As autophagy is well conserved from yeast to man, his laboratory's discoveries have also provided the critical tools to many labs to enable the appreciation of the important roles of autophagy in diverse physiological and disease processes.
"These include infectious diseases, cancers, and various neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington's disease and forms of Parkinson's disease. Indeed, autophagy manipulation may provide a key strategy for treating some of these conditions."
More than 270 scientists were nominated for the prize, which was awarded at Sweden's Karolinska Institute and comes with eight million Swedish kronor (around £728,000 or $936,000 or 834,000 euros) for the winner.
The winners of the physics, chemistry and peace prizes are to be announced later this week.
2015 - Three scientists - William C Campbell, Satoshi ÅŒmura and Youyou Tu - for anti-parasite drug discoveries.
2014 - Three scientists - John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser - for discovering the brain's navigating system.
2013 - James Rothman, Randy Schekman, and Thomas Sudhof for their discovery of how cells precisely transport material.
2012 - Two pioneers of stem cell research - John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka - were awarded the Nobel after changing adult cells into stem cells.
2011 - Bruce Beutler, Jules Hoffmann and Ralph Steinman shared the prize after revolutionising the understanding of how the body fights infection.
2010 - Robert Edwards for devising the fertility treatment IVF which led to the first "test tube baby" in July 1978.
2009 - Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for finding the telomeres at the ends of chromosomes.
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Sumaya Rajab said that more than 20 police vehicles had been sent to detain him.
The activist has served several prison sentences since setting up the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights in 2002.
Human Rights First said the arrest was an "alarming setback" to hopes for easing the nation's political crisis.
Bahrain's Sunni Muslim rulers forcibly quelled a 2011 uprising which had been triggered in large part by unrest among the Shia Muslim majority.
Sumaya Rajab said her husband was arrested at 14:15 local time (15:16 GMT).
She said: "There were a lot of police, many more than needed to arrest one man. My relatives counted more than 20 police vehicles.
"Nabeel was sleeping and my daughter woke him to say the police had come. I went to the gate and asked what they were doing. They showed me an arrest warrant that said he was being arrested for tweets he had made about torture in Jaw prison."
Mr Rajab has already been charged over another tweet he sent in September in which suggested that security institutions in Bahrain served as what he called an "ideological incubator" for jihadists.
He was released on bail and his next court appearance on that charge is schedule for 14 April.
Human Rights First said Thursday's arrest was "the latest in a string of actions that should give Washington pause as it considers whether to lift restrictions on sending arms to the kingdom". | Prominent Bahrain human rights activist Nabeel Rajab has been arrested over tweets about torture practices in a prison, his wife says. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32167009"} | 322 | 33 | 0.549287 | 1.350174 | -0.10602 | 1.173913 | 12.043478 | 0.826087 |
"Extensive damage" was caused in and around Fraser Hart in the Silbury Arcade, Milton Keynes during the break-in at about 03:30 GMT on Saturday.
The burglars tried to cover their escape by starting a fire nearby and padlocking a chain across the road to prevent a police pursuit.
Det Ch Insp Kelly Glister said it was fortunate that nobody was hurt. | Thieves who targeted a jewellery shop in an early-hours raid escaped with £650,000 of items, police have said. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34904166"} | 89 | 31 | 0.59598 | 1.061004 | -0.149537 | 0.304348 | 3.086957 | 0.304348 |
One person died and five were injured at the decommissioned power station on 23 February. Three are still missing.
Assistant Chief Constable Scott Chilton added that the victims' families had returned home after visiting the site.
A four-minute silence was held at demolition firm Coleman and Company's sites across the UK.
A spokesperson said it was "a sign of respect to our men, their families, friends and work colleagues".
Npower said it still did not know how the collapse happened and would not speculate.
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Thames Valley Police said the site remained "highly unstable" but that emergency services were continuing to work closely together to establish the best way to recover the bodies.
ACC Chilton said: "It is now one week since this major incident occurred.
"I know that this makes it particularly difficult for the families involved, as they await the recovery of their loved ones. Our priority remains to return them to their families and we continue to support the families as needed."
Chief fire officer Dave Etheridge said: "I believe the emergency service teams working on site are the best in the world and know they are using their experience and expertise to the limits."
Will Hancock, chief executive of South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, said: "I would like to thank the many SCAS staff who attended the incident at Didcot A Power Station last week and who triaged and treated over 50 casualties, before taking five people to hospital.
"Our Hazardous Area Response Team has remained on site since the collapse and we continue to provide support to the recovery teams carrying out their difficult task."
In a statement Coleman and Company said: "It is now one week since this terrible accident and I would like to express our deep sorrow at this heartbreaking time for our colleagues, and their families and friends.
"Nothing can prepare you for, nor are there words to express, our devastation at the events of the last week.
"All our hearts go out to the family and friends of those who have died and are still, tragically, missing.
"At this time, our over-riding priority is to support those families affected by this terrible incident."
It described the scene as an "unprecedented and hugely-challenging environment".
Part of the decommissioned Didcot A plant collapsed a week ago as it was being prepared for demolition.
One person, named as Michael Collings, is confirmed to have died. The cause of the collapse is unknown.
Five others injured in the incident been discharged from John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and are expected to make a full recovery, the company said.
A search operation involving sniffer dogs, listening devices and a thermal imaging drone continues as rescuers try to locate the missing workers. | Recovering the bodies of the victims of the Didcot power station collapse is a "very complex operation" that will take "many, many weeks", police have said. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35695270"} | 585 | 38 | 0.540692 | 1.343666 | 0.075087 | 1.212121 | 16.818182 | 0.848485 |
George Lancelot, 61, was jailed for 20 months on Thursday at Exeter Crown Court for breaching an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) banning him from swearing and drinking in public.
His latest offence was committed hours after he was released from prison.
As Lancelot was led from the dock on Thursday he shouted: "I'd get less for burglary." He then swore at the court.
Judge Phillip Wassall told Lancelot, of Higher Warberry Road, Torquay: "I am told there is unlikely to be any psychiatric disposition to help you.
"Unless you deal with this you could spend the rest of your life in prison."
Kevin Hopper, defending, said the court should order mental health treatment.
"He (Lancelot) cannot comply with the ASBO because he is mentally ill," said Mr Hopper.
"He faces a life term but I don't know what to suggest."
Andrew Neilson, of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: "We should not be filling our jails with people who have mental health needs, let alone someone who appears to pose no actual threat to the public." | A man with 176 convictions for repeated foul-mouthed outbursts risks spending the rest of his life in prison. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "30335266"} | 257 | 30 | 0.449284 | 1.138775 | -0.080667 | 1.428571 | 10.857143 | 0.571429 |
In the message, addressed to the leader of the Islamic State militant group to whom Boko Haram has pledged allegiance, Mr Shekau said he was still in command.
He had not featured in the group's recent videos, prompting speculation he had been killed or incapacitated.
Last week the Chadian president said Mr Shekau had been replaced.
Mr Shekau described as "blatant lies" reports that he was no longer in charge.
"I am alive," he said, adding: "I will only die when the time appointed by Allah comes."
The eight-minute-long recording mocked a recent statement by the new Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari that Boko Haram would be eliminated within three months.
Mr Shekau took over as the group's leader after its founder, Muhammad Yusuf, died in Nigerian police custody in July 2009.
Under his leadership Boko Haram has become more radical and has carried out more killings.
In numerous videos, Mr Shekau has taunted the Nigerian authorities, celebrating the group's violent acts including the abduction of the more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls in April 2014.
Last month, Mr Buhari said he would be willing to negotiate with the Boko Haram leadership for the release of the Chibok girls - depending on the credibility of those saying they represented the group.
A previous prisoner-swap attempt ended in failure.
Although momentum is gathering for a concerted regional offensive against the group, Boko Haram continues to carry out horrific attacks, not only in Nigeria but in its neighbours too, reports the BBC's Africa editor Mary Harper.
Profile: Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau
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Damir Begmatov, 25, will serve a minimum of 15 years for the murder of Bobir Esanov in Reading on 27 December.
Begmatov claimed to have discovered his housemate dead when he returned to their London Road home in the early hours, Kingston Crown Court heard.
The killer fled to Swindon where he was arrested on 9 January.
The jury at his trial heard the pair had "consumed substantial amounts of alcohol" before Begmatov killed 36-year-old Uzbek national Mr Esanov.
District crown prosecutor Tracey Johnson-Brown said: "This case represents a tragedy for Bob's family and friends who have been devastated by his death.
"I would like to pay tribute to Bob's family, friends and the witnesses for their wholehearted support of the investigation and prosecution." | A man who strangled his roommate with a cord then left his corpse in their house while he went out has been jailed for life. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37565140"} | 182 | 34 | 0.428039 | 0.969881 | -1.007056 | 0.423077 | 5.884615 | 0.423077 |
He is here to boost sales of Cadbury's chocolates - the brand is owned by Mondelez - and expand the reach of the US firm's products in rural India.
But doing this is probably not as sweet as the chocolate.
To entice people into buying chocolates there are banners showcasing bars of 5Star, Perk and small packets of Gems and Oreo biscuits - all selling for about 10 rupees (9p; 15 US cents).
This is different from selling in Indian cities and towns where big packs of chocolates costing more than a dollar or a pound also sell.
As he meets the shopkeepers, he checks with them on sales of Cadbury's chocolates and business in general. The responses he gets from shopkeepers are probably a bit low-spirited.
Anand Talekar runs a shop at the village's bus stop. It's a prime spot as state-run buses on this road connect the village's 5,000 inhabitants to nearby towns and the national highway.
Yet he hasn't sold much even of his other goods such as washing powder, shampoos, baby diapers, biscuits and hair dye.
To make a living, Mr Talekar relies on the locals - who almost all make a living from farming - to have money to spend. But harvests have not been good this year.
"Farming is in crisis, the farmers that were trying to cultivate crops have had a huge set back due to low rainfall, as they couldn't grow anything.
"This has led to a 35% drop in my income from the shop" says Mr Talekar.
"I myself have started cutting down on my fuel expenses on bike and car by opting to travel by government-run bus. I am also limiting using my mobile phone for calls to avoid spending on its credit."
Mr Talekar himself is from a farming family but due to poor yields on his farm in the last few years he set up a shop to give his family another source of income.
His parents and siblings still work on the farm in a nearby village.
Executives at Mondelez, sitting in their central office in Mumbai, see Mr Talekar's worries from a wider perspective.
While individuals' spending power may be lower, there is such a vast number of people living in rural communities across India it is a market they would be foolish to ignore.
"The opportunity for most companies is to really access the potential of rural India. It is an extraordinary source of long term growth for big businesses," says Mondelez India's managing director, Chandramouli Venkatesan.
Rural India accounts for 70% of India's population and for 50% of its GDP.
"One of the greatest challenges is to identify and prioritise which villages and markets are accessible and have the potential to sell our products," says Mr Venkatesan.
Mondelez says it used sales analytics technology to help identify potential villages to do business.
"We chose about 20,000 high priority villages - this allows us to maximise our revenue at an economical cost," he says
Once it had identified its key villages, Mondelez distributed its chocolates to local stores and found out the earnings from them matched that of similar stores in towns.
But there's nothing anyone, not even a powerful multi-national can do about a lack of rain.
India's Meteorology Department recently said that 309 districts out of 641 across India had received little rainfall this year. This is almost half the country, and many millions of people have been affected.
People are dubbing the resulting loss of business the "monsoon deficit".
As well as spending less on non-essentials like chocolate, farmers are thinking twice before investing in the tools of their trade.
Sales of motorcycles, which many farmers use to get around, fell 4.6% in the five months to September, compared to the same period last year, according to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam), an industry lobby group.
Tractor sales are down too.
India's Mahindra Tractors one of the world's largest-selling tractor brand says that instead of sales growing 6% this year, they will actually fall 5%.
Along with monsoon deficit there are other challenges companies face.
Companies often conduct campaigns in small towns and villages through which they educate the consumers on the product and work on building the brand awareness.
The packaging of these products is also different - smaller packets for a lower cost often sell fast in villages where people do not want to commit a substantial amount to one product.
Devendra Chawla, a marketer and consumer brands specialist at Future Group, says companies need to have a different strategy for rural and urban markets.
"You cannot expect to expand every year in rural India. If there is a drought and purchasing power is down it does not take away the long-term potential of rural which is large."
But concerns remain over India's agricultural sector which grew by only 2.2% in the three months to September.
Meanwhile, back in Wing village, farmer Nirmala Talekar says she has stopped giving milk and buying new clothes for her children as she clears out the weed from the ruined crops in her field.
Her husband has taken up a job as a factory worker so that his earnings can help them cope with the drought.
"We have to continue to live on the most essential items for now - we are struggling to pay our children's school fees," says another farmer, Baban Mahangale.
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"Vivien Leigh: Public Faces, Private Lives" includes pieces by set and costume designer Oliver Messel.
The exhibition is being held at the National Trust-owned Nymans property in West Sussex, until 4 September.
It features outfits, photos and scripts on loan from the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London.
It acquired the archive from the Gone with the Wind star's grandchildren in 2013.
It covers all aspects of Leigh's life and career, as detailed in diaries she started writing when she was 16-years-old in 1929 and kept until her death in 1967. | More than 100 items celebrating the life of Oscar-winning actress Vivien Leigh have gone on display at the home of her favourite costume designer. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36421003"} | 132 | 32 | 0.570448 | 1.413024 | -0.327319 | 0.777778 | 4.37037 | 0.555556 |
A 300-strong colony of Natterer's bats roost in the roof of St Andrew's Church in Holme Hale but cannot be removed as they are a protected species.
Rev Stephen Thorp said the bats are "off-putting" and have made couples look elsewhere for their wedding.
The church hopes new ultrasound technology will resolve the problem.
The Home Hale colony, near Swaffham, is thought to be one of the biggest in England.
The bats tend to fly within the body of the church where excrement can then damage furnishings and sometimes irreplaceable objects of international significance, said experts.
In some cases the colony can also restrict the use of a church for worship or other community functions.
Mr Thorp, who has been the rector at the church since 2006, said the "pungent" faeces and urine from the bats in the pitch of the church roof "showers down on anybody inside".
"This does an awful lot of damage and in the breeding season it's also possible for pubescent bats to fall from the roof onto the floor," he said.
Funded by Defra, researchers from Bristol University have been working at the Grade I listed building which has suffered from the effects of the large maternity colony for a number of years.
Possible solutions to "deter" the colony include the use of strong artificial lighting to create "no-fly zones" within the church and ultrasonic signals.
"We don't want to kill or harm the bats in anyway, but we do think it's fundamentally wrong that human beings and bats should be forced to share the same indoor dwelling space," said Mr Thorp.
"It's one of those cases where the bats seem to have more rights that the worshipping community and that's why we've been involved with Defra and Natural England to try and come to a reasonable solution to the problem."
Julia Hanmer, chief executive officer at the Bat Conservation Trust, said they were "deeply sympathetic" to the church community at Holme Hale who "experience real challenges due to an unusually large number of bats in a small church".
She added the trust was "committed" to helping churches and where problems are experienced to find "lasting solutions that help both people and bats". | Bats "showering" parishioners with faeces and urine at a Norfolk church appear to have "more rights that the worshipping community", a vicar said. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "27140007"} | 505 | 43 | 0.559922 | 1.534149 | 0.506525 | 2.275862 | 15.344828 | 0.827586 |
The world number three posted a video on social media of himself gripping his putter with his left hand below his right during practice.
McIlroy plans to use the technique at this week's WGC-Cadillac tournament.
"I feel like it's something I'm going to stick with, regardless of what the outcome is tomorrow, or this week or next week," he said.
McIlroy missed the cut at the Honda Classic last week and is making the switch before the Masters, which takes place between 7-10 April.
"It's a drill I've been doing for a while," said the 26-year-old.
"I feel like my left hand controls my putting stroke and I felt over the past few weeks my right hand was becoming a little bit too dominant."
He added: "It's one of those things where the drill started to feel a little bit better than the real thing, so I'm just going to stick with it." | Rory McIlroy intends switching to the "cross-handed" putting method as he tries to improve his form. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35713272"} | 215 | 30 | 0.624223 | 1.338105 | 0.197426 | 0.52381 | 9.333333 | 0.52381 |
The 33-year-old, who was captain at Leyton Orient when new Coventry boss Russell Slade was in charge at Brisbane Road, has agreed a deal until the end of the season on a free transfer.
Clarke spent 11 years at Huddersfield, playing more than 300 times for the club, before moving to Orient in 2012.
"He will bring assurance and knowhow, as well as have a positive impact on the younger players," Slade said.
Clarke is one of three players to join struggling Coventry as the January transfer window opens.
Striker Stuart Beavon and midfielder Callum Reilly have moved to the Ricoh Arena from Burton Albion, with forward Marvin Sordell moving in the opposite direction.
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Gerrard says the Football Association's £105m national football centre needs to be more player friendly.
The 35-year-old also says that his slip against Chelsea, as Liverpool missed out on the 2013-14 Premier League title "kills" him, in a BT Sport interview.
And he admits being left out against Real Madrid in last season's Champions League hastened his Liverpool exit.
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The 330-acre St George's Park site in Burton, Staffordshire, opened in 2012 as a base for all 24 England teams at various levels. It includes a replica of the Wembley surface and an altitude chamber to mimic a variety of playing conditions.
But in an interview with Rio Ferdinand for a BT Sport programme, Gerrard said he thinks the complex needs a golf course to help overcome the "shyness" in the England squad.
St George's Park managing director Julie Harrington has since told BBC Sport that a nine-hole golf course is planned for the centre.
"It's an unbelievable site but they need to be a bit more realistic around it," he said. "They need to make it a little bit friendlier for the players.
"It's a top place to train and prepare but away from the training pitch and the games, it can be boring. We need to create that atmosphere where England players are desperate to get away and do well."
"When you get to England, you want to have your lunch and go to bed and keep away from everyone because there's a shyness. There needs to be an England atmosphere when you turn up and you know each other, you want to be with each other."
Gerrard announced in January he was leaving Liverpool after 17 years to join MLS side Los Angeles Galaxy.
But he has revealed it was during a 1-0 defeat by Real Madrid in November that he made his mind up about leaving Liverpool.
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers chose to start with Gerrard on the bench for the match at the Bernabeu.
Gerrard said: "When I was told I wasn't playing for the sake of the team, because of my relationship with Brendan, I took it and I accepted it.
"But I sat on that bench devastated because I wanted to play. It pushed me into making a decision to move on and try something different."
In 2014 Liverpool were top of the Premier League with three games to go when they hosted second-placed Chelsea at Anfield.
But a slip by Gerrard allowed Demba Ba to score Chelsea's first goal and Jose Mourinho's side went on to win 2-0 as Liverpool's title challenge fell apart.
Gerrard has criticised Liverpool's tactics in the game and said they "lost their way" and went "gung-ho instead of being controlled" - but refused to blame Rodgers.
He said: "The inexperience showed from myself having not been in many title races and the inexperience of the team.
"The slip happened at a bad time, it was cruel for me personally.
"I'm not scared of any criticism or cruelty. I understand it and the impact it had - it kills me, don't get me wrong. Inside it kills me and it will do for a long time. I think to myself: 'If I'd have got that league, it would have been the icing on the cake'.
"That one moment will always hurt me until the day I go because I'd have achieved every dream with Liverpool. It hurts." | Former England and Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has described St George's Park as "boring". | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33251595"} | 782 | 22 | 0.412606 | 1.129837 | -0.506401 | 1.555556 | 39.166667 | 0.777778 |
Analysis by Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University said the number of rough sleepers would double from 800 to 1,500 if current economic policies continue.
Researchers also forecast the number of people in unsuitable temporary accommodation would rise by a third in the next decade.
The study was commissioned by homelessness charity Crisis.
Across the UK, the number of people without a home will reach 392,400 by 2041, according to the analysis, compared with 159,900 in 2016.
The report states there are currently 11,800 people across Scotland either sleeping rough, staying in hostels, living in unsuitable temporary accommodation, sofa-surfing, sleeping in cars or staying in squats or refuges.
The team's analysis indicates this figure is expected to rise to 12,200 by 2021 before accelerating to 18,100 - a rise of 53% on current levels - in 2041.
11,800
Sleeping rough, in hostels or unsuitable accommodation
800 spent one night on streets
5,200 households 'sofa surfing'
2,300 households in hostels
2,100 households in unsuitable temporary accommodation
Jon Sparkes, chief executive of Crisis, said: "This year Crisis marks its 50th anniversary, but that's little cause for celebration.
"We still exist because homelessness still exists, and today's report makes it only too clear that unless we take action as a society, the problem is only going to get worse with every year that passes.
"That means more people sleeping on our streets, in doorways or bus shelters, on the sofas of friends or family, or getting by in hostels and B&Bs. In order to tackle this, it's crucial we first understand the scale of the problem."
He praised the Scottish government's commitment to build 50,000 new affordable homes by 2021 - of which 35,000 will be for social rent - which he said would help slow the rise in homelessness in the short-term.
He added: "Now is the time for action and we look forward to working with the Scottish government to find solutions and bring these forecasts down."
The report estimates that at any one time in 2016, 800 people had spent one night sleeping rough while 5,200 households were "sofa-surfing" - defined as staying with others who are not their parents on a short-term basis and wanting to move.
Another 2,300 households were staying in hostels while 1,400 households were living in other circumstances, including squats, women's refuges, winter night shelters, sleeping in tents, cars or public transport.
Scottish housing minister Kevin Stewart said Scotland had "some of the strongest rights for homeless people in the world", which had already led to falling homelessness despite the UK government's austerity measures.
However, he also said there was more that could be done, and pledged to continue working with other organisations to tackle homelessness.
He said: "Our priorities include addressing homelessness for people with more complex needs, who may be rough sleeping and for whom simply providing accommodation is not always enough, and ensuring temporary accommodation plays a positive role in improving outcomes for homeless households."
The Scottish Conservatives said the projected increase "could well come true if the Scottish government doesn't get to grips with this".
Housing spokesman Graham Simpson said: "Nearly 12,000 people are sleeping in unsuitable circumstances in Scotland every night. That should shame the SNP but maybe these people don't matter to them.
"Sadly, homelessness is a scandal which is often unseen but it could easily happen to any of us and that's why we need more action and fewer words and think tanks."
Scottish Labour said the projections were "horrifying" and blamed changes to the benefits system coupled with cuts to local authority budgets.
MSP Pauline McNeill called for a joined-up strategy involving house building and a crackdown on bad landlords. She added: "The warning signs are there - ministers must now take action. It would be grossly negligent for these warnings to be ignored."
The Scottish Liberal Democrats said the figures were a "national disgrace" and said the Scottish government must take some responsibility.
The party's housing spokeswoman Caron Lindsay said: "When the SNP government fail to get to grips with the housing crisis, they fail these people and their families.
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Food Utopia said it planned to end production at Avana Bakeries in Rogerstone by the end of January.
The firm said the factory, which also cut hundreds of workers in 2014, had been running at a loss and it was "financially unsustainable".
The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union said a 45-day consultation with staff would start on Thursday.
It said there was a cake production surplus in the country and people were not eating as many baked goods as they used to.
Food Utopia said the site had been "unable to make sufficient progress in an increasingly competitive market".
The firm said it would explore all options and seek as much external support as possible as it began discussions about the future of the bakery. | A consultation over plans to close a Newport bakery with the loss of 150 jobs has begun. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38317942"} | 157 | 20 | 0.548872 | 1.211738 | -0.490668 | 0.555556 | 8.111111 | 0.555556 |
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Farah, 31, left the field behind as he stormed home in a time of eight minutes 3.40 seconds - breaking Kenenisa Bekele's previous record of 8:04.34.
It is the double Olympic champion's first world record.
"This means a lot to me," Farah told BBC Sport. "I love representing my country, giving something back to all the people. Unbelievable."
The build-up to Saturday's race had been dominated by
Farah claimed Vernon had questioned his nationality after the double Olympic champion won European 10,000m gold in 2014, with Vernon describing that as a "huge, huge misrepresentation".
The bad feeling clearly did not upset Farah on the track as he dominated the field in Birmingham, leaving Kenyan Paul Koech and American Bernard Lagat trailing as he ran a sub-four minute mile for the second half of the race, clocking 3:59.5.
"It (the row with Vernon) inspired me, I wanted to do it," said Farah.
"Whatever's happened has happened, we've got to move on, but at the same time I'm an athlete, that's what I do best. I just have to keep running."
Asked if he had a message for Vernon, Farah said: "No, at the end of the day whatever's done is done. I just have to move on.
"I think it's too soon to say anything right now. I've moved on and put that behind me. I want to keep running well."
Vernon congratulated Farah on Twitter, saying: "Everything aside that was a cracking run @Mo-Farah. Congratulations on the new WR."
Farah, who will skip next month's European Indoor Championships, has five global track titles over 5,000m and 10,000m but had not set a world record until Saturday.
"Definitely, it's about setting myself a goal and knowing what I want out of the year," he said. "It's two different things going for a world record or going for a championship.
"I shouldn't get carried away, it's only two miles indoors, but at the same time it would be nice to be able to do what I can do for 10k, if I can go close or break it.
"But I will never give up (on championships). I want to be able to know I collected as many medals as I could for my country." | Britain's Mo Farah broke the two-mile indoor world record with a superb run at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "31569286"} | 568 | 28 | 0.41968 | 1.118973 | 0.455559 | 0.913043 | 21.391304 | 0.73913 |
It was highlighted when Zayn Malik left the Asian leg of the band's On the Road Again tour last week and was signed off with stress.
But Newsbeat wanted to know what life in a boy band is really like.
So we spoke to Scott Robinson from 1990s band Five, who left the group when he was just about to turn 22. Here is his story in his own words.
It is very difficult being in a boy band.
What it is, is people from the public just see the glamour side of it and obviously they see you doing the big shows and Top of the Pops on the telly and living a certain lifestyle.
They think it's amazing. And it is, but you're worked very, very hard. It is tricky and you get very tired.
So, for example, during a week, we could be starting off in London. We might be on the Big Breakfast Show, say for six in the morning. So we'd be picked up at four in the morning or maybe earlier.
We'd go straight into make-up, we'd go on the show. We would literally finish the Big Breakfast and we could be jetting off to America. And we could be in America for two days doing promo.
Then we could leave America after two days and go to, anywhere, Norway, Sweden, anywhere. It could be writing, it could be recording, it could have been touring.
It was non-stop and we didn't get any breaks.
I remember sometimes we'd set an alarm and you'd be given two hours kip and then we were up doing another round of promo or whatever.
Speaking to the manager of One Direction, who used to work at the record company that we did, he said that they're worked pretty much the same, although they are given scheduled breaks.
They will have a certain amount of time to relax. But in that relaxation time, obviously you can't go anywhere, so you're still very much in the bubble of One Direction or Five.
You never really get any time to yourself. I remember having to call off the end of a tour because we were just so tired.
I'm a really fussy eater, so I could never find anything to eat, ever, anywhere.
I remember there were four days left in our world tour and we said, 'Look, we just can't do it' and we were all very, very unwell because we'd been worked so hard.
I had four days off, and that was the longest I ever remember having off during the band.
When I got to America, my now wife and mum and dad looked at me, and said, 'Wow, you look so ill'.
I slept for the first three days of the holiday. I hadn't eaten properly, I was very skinny. It was horrible to be in the situation where you are that tired.
You had to be happy all day long. There were points where you were so incredibly tired you almost didn't know your own mind.
You would be interviewed and you were being asked exactly the same question again and again and you've got to be enthusiastic about that question.
I used to fall asleep in the make-up chair. I used to go to sleep in the make-up chair, for 10 minutes and I'd wake up looking like a pop star. But I promise you I didn't look like a pop star before I sat in the chair.
It was literally 24/7 and that's no exaggeration and I do genuinely remember times when we had no sleep. Like, you know, none. None whatsoever.
Five are back on tour from 16 April.
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The construction project could last for about four months.
Transport Scotland said some lane closures would be required during the work, but added that this should not cause significant delays.
The new system between Inverness and Perth is opposed by campaign group A9 Average Speed Cameras Are Not the Answer.
It has called for action to tackle bad overtaking. | Work to build the infrastructure needed for a system of average speed cameras on part of the A9 will begin on Monday. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "26784070"} | 72 | 26 | 0.688186 | 1.412421 | 0.269365 | 0.73913 | 2.913043 | 0.478261 |
The Football Association is searching for a new England boss following Sam Allardyce's departure after 67 days.
Asked about taking the job, Wenger, 66, said: "One day, if I'm free, why not?" Pochettino, 44, said: "Yes, why not? In the future."
Both said they are committed to their current clubs.
Allardyce, who replaced Roy Hodgson following England's disappointing Euro 2016, left by mutual agreement on Tuesday after the Daily Telegraph claimed he offered advice on how to "get around" rules on player transfers.
Allardyce won his only game in charge, a 1-0 victory over Slovakia in their opening 2018 World Cup qualifier in September.
England Under-21 boss Gareth Southgate will take charge of the senior team for the next four matches, including three World Cup qualifiers, starting with Malta at Wembley (8 October), Slovenia away (11 October), Scotland at home (11 November) and Spain in a friendly (15 November).
Southgate could be an option for the permanent role depending on his success, while Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe, Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew and ex-Hull City manager Steve Bruce have also been mentioned as candidates.
Frenchman Wenger is the longest-serving - and most successful - overseas manager in England, having won 15 trophies during his 20-year tenure at Arsenal, including three Premier League titles and six FA Cups.
Arsenal, who are unbeaten in eight games in all competitions this season, play Burnley on Sunday at 16:30 BST aiming for a fifth consecutive Premier League victory.
Pochettino has earned a reputation as one of the brightest managerial talents in English football.
The 44-year-old Argentine led Southampton to eighth spot in the Premier League in 2012-13 before moving to Spurs in 2014.
Last season, he took Tottenham back into the Champions League with automatic qualification from a third-placed league finish.
Burnley boss Sean Dyche, 44, ruled himself out of contention for the England job because of a lack of experience.
"If you want to build a chance of being good at that kind of level, you need more years and layers of experience," he said.
"In the future, who knows? Maybe. But at the moment I think there are people better placed than me."
BBC chief football writer Phil McNulty
The Arsenal manager's credentials easily outstrip those of the other candidates being touted as Allardyce's replacement.
At 66, Wenger might even share Allardyce's view when he was appointed that his age and experience make him the perfect fit for international management.
Wenger is the perfect next England manager with the ideal credentials and track record if the FA can formulate a plan to somehow attract him to what many now call an impossible job.
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Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen tried to block the appointment to the justice committee following newspaper claims that Mr Vaz paid for the services of two male sex workers.
But his attempt was rejected in a Commons vote by 203 to seven.
Mr Vaz quit as chairman of the influential home affairs committee in September.
Electing MPs to vacancies on committees is usually uncontentious, with each party given a set allocation of places.
Labour put forward Mr Vaz and Kate Green for the two vacant places on the justice committee, which is chaired by Conservative Robert Neill. | Labour MP Keith Vaz has comfortably survived a bid to prevent him getting a seat on a House of Commons committee. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37829906"} | 124 | 28 | 0.634811 | 1.362113 | -0.711545 | 0.545455 | 4.863636 | 0.545455 |
Mr Modi made the announcement at a press conference in Paris with French President Francois Hollande.
The deal is the fruition of years of negotiation, with India intent on buying 126 jets in total for an estimated cost of $12bn (£8.2bn).
Mr Modi said the deal was done after talks with Mr Hollande but that terms and conditions still had to be agreed.
He added that he wished to buy the jets ready to fly. This means that they will be built in France, not India.
The Indian prime minister is in France on the first leg of a three-nation tour which also takes in Germany and Canada.
Mr Modi will visit the World War One memorial and pay tribute to Indians who lost their lives fighting alongside France.
He will then head to Germany, where he will inaugurate one of the world's biggest trade fairs and told talks with leaders to boost trade ties.
In the third and last leg of his tour, Mr Modi will travel to Canada, marking the first standalone visit by an Indian prime minister in more than four decades. | Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi has announced the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32245884"} | 235 | 25 | 0.581161 | 1.153699 | -0.544257 | 1 | 12.470588 | 0.529412 |
Gallagher agreed a new three-year deal in 2016 but has opted to stand down in the wake of the 4-17 to 0-14 hammering in the All-Ireland qualifiers.
Fermanagh native Gallagher succeeded Jim McGuinness in 2014 having earlier served three years as his assistant.
Donegal were defeated by Tyrone in this year's Ulster semi-finals.
That put Gallagher's men into the second round of the qualifiers in which they saw off Longford, followed by a narrow 1-15 to 1-14 victory over Meath.
Donegal were then drawn to face Galway in Sligo and the manner of their defeat saw 38-year-old Gallagher come in for strong criticism.
The county board announced Gallagher's departure on social media on Monday night.
They thanked him for his efforts and said a full statement would follow. | Rory Gallagher has resigned as manager of Donegal's senior football panel - nine days after the county's crushing 15-point defeat by Galway. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40785377"} | 199 | 39 | 0.697582 | 1.424482 | -0.028542 | 0.666667 | 6.037037 | 0.592593 |
The proposal will set out how Hong Kong will choose its next leader in 2017.
The package will for the first time give citizens the right to vote for the chief executive - but candidates will be vetted by a pro-Beijing committee.
That ruling sparked weeks of large-scale protests in the city by people calling for greater democracy.
Details of the package are expected to be presented by the government at 11:00 local time (03:00 GMT) on Wednesday.
Hong Kong's pro-democracy lawmakers look set to vote against the reforms despite warnings from the Chinese government not to do so.
If that is the case, it is unlikely to get the two-thirds majority it needs to pass.
"If the pan-democrats stubbornly insist on vetoing the proposal, democracy in Hong Kong will come to a standstill," Song Ru'an, a Chinese foreign ministry official in Hong Kong, told reporters.
It is unclear what China's response will be if the package is vetoed in the vote, which is expected to take place on Thursday or Friday.
Security has been stepped up across the city, with both pro-democracy and pro-government groups due to rally outside the government headquarters when the debate starts on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, China warned against "radical forces" in Hong Kong after police arrested 10 people on suspicion of making explosives.
Police said one suspect had claimed to be a member of a "radical local group" but would not name the group or specify motives.
Pro-democracy activists have accused police of launching a smear campaign against them. | Hong Kong's government is set to present a controversial political reform package on Wednesday ahead of a much-anticipated vote later this week. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33159341"} | 357 | 32 | 0.608775 | 1.375208 | 0.275673 | 1.076923 | 12 | 0.615385 |
The Unite and GMB unions said their members had shown strong support for holding a ballot.
Several oil and gas firms operating in the North Sea have announced plans to axe jobs and reduce salaries, following a sustained fall in the price of oil.
The two unions had said previously that talks with the Offshore Contractors Association (OCA) had failed.
The Offshore Contractors Agreement covers workers in mechanical, electrical and allied services, construction, maintenance, design, project engineering, fabrication and decommissioning.
Unite Scottish Secretary Pat Rafferty said: "This massive support for industrial action should come as no surprise to offshore employers.
"It's not too late to talk but the ball is in the employers' court."
GMB National Officer Dave Hulse said "Members have voted overwhelming for the go-ahead for an official ballot over the proposals from clients and contractors to change terms and conditions of employment.
"The vote quite clearly demonstrates the anger and frustration of our members employed in the offshore industry."
Bill Murray, chief executive of the Offshore Contractors Association, said: "The decision by trade union officials to go to industrial ballot over changes to shift and holiday patterns is disappointing.
"The need to make efficiencies and increase productivity in order to prevent further redundancies and prolong the life of the North Sea is well understood by the industry following a period of unsustainable cost inflation.
"Strike action would only serve to make investment in the North Sea less attractive and jeopardise the long-term future of the industry.
"We remain committed to working closely with union representatives and our members to find a solution." | North Sea workers are to vote on industrial action over jobs, pay and shifts. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32083978"} | 351 | 18 | 0.581005 | 1.428158 | -0.331486 | 1 | 19.875 | 0.75 |
Ann Barnes crashed in September 2014, raising questions as to whether the journey was for business and if she was adequately insured.
Tuesday's report said there is evidence an offence may have been committed.
The report has now called for all police and crime commissioners to have valid insurance for business use.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigation was sparked after Mrs Barnes's Mercedes was in collision with another car in Princes Road, Dartford, on 16 September 2014. Nobody was seriously hurt.
It said: "It is the investigator's opinion that there is evidence upon which the IPCC Commissioner could determine that an offence of using motor vehicle without insurance on 16 September 2014, contrary to The Road Traffic Act 1998, may have been committed by Mrs Barnes."
The IPCC said Mrs Barnes had visited the Kent Police Safety Shop at Bluewater shopping centre and was on her way to a meeting at Dartford Borough Council.
The report said Mrs Barnes was a named driver for a car insured and registered in her husband's name. She later produced a valid certificate which defined her insurance cover as "social, domestic and pleasure" including "to and from a permanent place of work".
It added insurers Oak Underwriting said it had not paid out under a commuting clause but because it was a non-fault claim.
In February, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it was not in the public interest to prosecute.
Responding to the report, Mrs Barnes issued a statement which said: "This issue was dealt with last February when the CPS, having reviewed the evidence supplied by the IPCC, took the independent decision not to charge me.
"I have fully co-operated with the IPCC's lengthy investigation, and I am pleased that the matter has finally been resolved."
But Kent and Medway's Police and Crime Panel criticised the IPCC for taking 13 months to complete the report and the five months it took the watchdog to interview Mrs Barnes.
It said the time taken meant the CPS had to take a decision on prosecution without further investigation.
The process had damaged the PCC, her office, and the administration of justice, the panel said.
It said it had sought an assurance from Mrs Barnes that she had set up a system to ensure she and her staff regularly proved they were fully insured when driving on business.
Politicians have questioned Mrs Barnes's future.
South Thanet Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay said the IPCC report followed controversy over Mrs Barnes's youth commissioner appointments, a Channel 4 documentary, and her vehicle nicknamed Ann Force One.
He said: "It really doesn't end. She's the PCC that keeps on giving. Thankfully we've got elections next year. I don't know if she's considering standing. I hear she might be.
"The people of Kent will have a choice as to who they want to be a rather-more-competent PCC to represent them."
Medway Labour councillor Tristan Osborne has called for Mrs Barnes to be transparent about her intentions to stand again in May.
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Omar Khadr, once the US prison's youngest inmate at age 15, was granted bail by a Canadian judge in April.
The Canadian government sought the emergency stay on Monday. Khadr could be released as soon as Tuesday.
Khadr, now 28, spent 10 years in the Guantanamo prison after being captured in Afghanistan in 2002.
The Toronto-born Khadr was released from Guantanamo Bay after a plea deal and sent back to Canada in 2012.
He is currently serving an eight-year sentence in Canada for war crimes including throwing a grenade that killed a US Army sergeant in Afghanistan.
Khadr, whose family had ties to Osama Bin Laden, has said he only pleaded guilty so he would be released from the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been critical of the judge's decision, saying the release would jeopardise relations with the US.
"We feel that Mr Khadr, until a final decision is rendered by the court, should stay behind bars," Canadian Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney told CBC News. | The Canadian government is seeking to block the release of an ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate as he appeals against his war crimes conviction in a US court. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32585636"} | 248 | 38 | 0.655724 | 1.330556 | 0.100631 | 1.241379 | 7.034483 | 0.758621 |
Francis Santhio, 53, attacked 49-year-old Amelet Francis at her home in Toryglen, Glasgow, on 4 September.
The couple's eldest son discovered his mother's body and Santhio was later arrested after making a tearful confession to another of his children.
He faces a mandatory life sentence when he is sentenced at a later date.
The court heard that Sri-Lankan born Santhio and his wife had been married since 1989, but he later became estranged from his family.
He lived at a flat in the city's Govan area while his wife stayed in Toryglen with their three sons.
On the morning of the murder Santhio was seen approaching his wife at mass at a local church.
Later in the day, their eldest son got a call at work to say something had happened to his mother.
He immediately called her home and his father answered stating: "She can't speak - there has been an accident."
Their son rushed to the flat and discovered the door unlocked.
Describing the horror he eventually found in a bedroom, prosecutor Bruce Erroch said: "On looking through the door, he saw his mother on her back on the floor.
"She was covered in blood and suffering from an obvious head injury.
"He immediately thought she was dead and did not fully enter the room."
The son dialled 999, but paramedics could not save his mother.
After the killing, an emotional Santhio turned up at the school of one of his other sons.
He told him Amelet had fallen after he hit her and that she "could not get back up".
Santhio was soon detained by police near the scene.
On being told his wife was dead, he said: "She treated me like a slave. She retained my passport and kept my money."
The court also heard that, while on remand, Santhio called his daughter, who had not heard from him for two years.
He admitted he had got "angry" with Amelet and smacked her on the head with a weight.
Mr Erroch told the court Amelet suffered "multiple fractures to the skull" consistent with being hit with a "heavy object".
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When Mr Juncker made an impassioned defence of the euro - "the single currency didn't split Europe... it defends Europe" - there were howls of derision from the UKIP benches. Nigel Farage weighed in saying that "nobody knew him" and that his name had "appeared on no ballot paper".
Shortly afterwards Marine Le Pen was telling the former Luxembourg prime minister, "You weren't elected by the people… we'll fight you and your institutions."
But this was political knockabout. Mr Juncker knew he had the votes. The Liberals ensured he got 422 votes, 46 more than he needed.
Today - perhaps - we saw the real Jean-Claude Juncker, not the emollient vote-seeker doing the rounds of the parliamentary groupings last week.
Firstly, he is passionate in defence of the single currency which he described as an "affair of the heart".
While some argue that yoking such disparate countries with the same currency has sowed division and paved the way to mass unemployment, he would have none of it. Without the euro, he said, countries were pitted against each other.
He was prepared to lie in its defence. "When things get serious," he said, "you have to know how to lie."
As Commission president he will legislate to "deepen our economic and monetary union".
Secondly he may be a conservative but, as Daniel Cohn-Bendit once remarked, Mr Juncker has been the "most socialist Christian Democrat". He told the parliament today that the internal market was not more important than social affairs.
He described himself as a champion of the social market economy - but he said it would only work with social dialogue. He called for a "re-industrialisation of Europe". He came across as an activist, interventionist president with an ambitious programme of investment, mobilising a 300bn-euro (£239bn; $408bn) war chest over the next three years to be invested in key projects.
He said the growth and stability pact - which limits deficits to 3% and debt to 60% of GDP - would not be altered but flexibility would be explored in order to boost growth. And mindful of the damage done by austerity in countries like Greece, he vowed that no bailout programme would be introduced without assessing the social impact in advance.
Last week and again today he insisted he was not a federalist and had never used the words "a United States of Europe" but then he eulogised another Commission president, Jacques Delors: "He is my friend, my mentor. He inspires me every day." Jacques Delors was one of the architects of the euro.
Mr Juncker will take up his new office in November full of ambition. He envisages
He comes across as pragmatic, a man who says he wants a fair deal for Britain but, inside, the fires burn brightly for the European project. He will not allow a watering down of the key pillars like the free movement of people which he regards as an integral part of the internal market. He is very much a man who sees himself as continuing to build the European home.
Whilst he was listening to the speeches, I saw Mr Juncker looking down at his mobile pone. At that moment my own phone announced that Lord Hill would be nominated as the UK's next EU commissioner. In fact Mr Juncker had been given the name the night before by David Cameron.
In Strasbourg almost no one had heard of Lord Hill. There was a desperate online search to define him. In the corridors of the European Parliament there was much shaking of heads. Why once again was it asked had Britain not put forward a big political hitter, a Neil Kinnock, a Peter Mandelson or a Chris Patten?
Some questioned whether it was a tacit acceptance in London that the UK would not land a top economic post like the internal market or trade.
It was being said in government circles that Lord Hill was a good political fixer, who had set up a PR business and who had ably been the leader of the House of Lords when the Conservatives did not have a majority.
Jean-Claude Juncker over the next two months will decide in consultation with the member states who gets what posts.
He will not want to do anything that pushes the UK towards an EU exit but neither will he compromise what he called today the "European dream". | In the end Jean-Claude Juncker's anointment as Europe's most powerful official came with moments of theatre. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "28317790"} | 1,007 | 29 | 0.358537 | 1.016533 | 0.018795 | 1.380952 | 41.095238 | 0.714286 |
The odds were already favouring a draw after Surrey's openers had batted out the final 45 overs on the third day.
And the south London weather had the final word when the game was abandoned in mid-afternoon on Wednesday.
Middlesex, who have now drawn all five County Championship games so far, take 10 points and Surrey nine.
Both sides are back in Division One action this Sunday, when Middlesex host Somerset at Lord's and Surrey head to Manchester to take on last season's Division Two title rivals Lancashire. | Surrey's London derby against Middlesex was called off as a draw at The Oval after bad weather prevented any play on the final day. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36318132"} | 119 | 33 | 0.588868 | 1.161436 | -0.023565 | 0.923077 | 3.961538 | 0.615385 |
Britain voted by a margin of 52% to 48% to leave the EU - and the contenders to replace David Cameron as PM have all vowed make it happen.
But 22% of people polled for Newsnight said they don't know if it will, while 16% believe the UK will stay in the EU.
Ipsos MORI interviewed 1,077 people between Wednesday and Thursday.
The poll also suggests almost half of voters - 48% - agree there should be a general election before Britain begins Brexit negotiations so that people can vote on plans for life outside the EU.
It comes after US Secretary of State John Kerry suggested the UK might not follow through with its decision to leave.
The vast majority of those interviewed said they would not change their vote if the UK held a second referendum on EU membership.
But 5% of Leave voters said they would now change their vote compared to just 2% of Remain voters.
Results also show that more than half of voters do not believe their current government and MPs reflect the views of the British public towards the EU - including 67% of Leave voters.
And 59% of respondents said they were not confident in Britain's political leaders to get the best possible terms for Britain - rising to 76% of Remain voters.
Quizzed on two of the most contentious issues of the campaign - free movement and membership of the single market - marginally more voters favoured the UK continuing without restrictions on migration in return for continuing to trade in the single market.
A total of 42% of respondents said Britain should continue to allow EU citizens to live and work in Britain in return for access to the single market - including 18% of Leave voters.
But 38% of those polled said losing access to the single market would be a price worth paying for new curbs on immigration.
The overwhelming finding of the poll was that most voters are sticking to their positions - 83% of Remain voters now feel less hopeful for the future of the UK, compared to the 80% of Leave voters who are now more hopeful.
Interviews with adults aged 18-75 across Great Britain were conducted online. Data are weighted to match the profile of the population, and to the estimated relative vote share of this group in the EU referendum.
More on the polling and latest referendum fallout on Newsnight at 22.30 BST on BBC Two, and available on iPlayer in the UK. | More than a third of voters are not convinced the UK will leave the EU despite last week's referendum result, a poll for BBC Newsnight suggests. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36689608"} | 519 | 35 | 0.606797 | 1.270042 | 0.111054 | 1.344828 | 16.344828 | 0.793103 |
Twentieth Century Fox and the British Film Institute (BFI) are working to digitally re-master the film, directed by Hugh Hudson.
The film tells the true story of two runners who compete in the 1924 Paris Olympics despite religious obstacles.
It will be shown at more than 100 cinemas around the country from 13 July as part of the London 2012 Festival.
Starring Ian Charleson and Ben Cross, the film won four Oscars, including best picture, screenplay and music for Vangelis' acclaimed score.
Although the film is 31 years old, producer Lord Puttnam believes the message is still relevant.
"Chariots of Fire is about guts, determination and belief. At the heart of the film is the quest for Olympic glory, and I find it hard to imagine anything more likely to resonate throughout the country this summer," he said.
The BBC's home of 2012: Latest Olympic news, sport, culture, torch relay, video and audio
The BFI is allocating £150,000 of its lottery funding to support the film's release across the country, widening its reach beyond the London 2012 Festival.
The festival will also feature a new film by Bafta-winning Senna director Asif Kapadia - The Odyssey - which will explore the relationship between London and the Olympic games.
It is the last of four short films commissioned especially for the festival.
Directors Mike Leigh, Lynne Ramsay and Streetdance directing duo Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini are already confirmed as part of the project. | Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire is to be brought back to the big screen ahead of this summer's Olympics. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "17490027"} | 340 | 28 | 0.549872 | 1.459763 | -0.088023 | 1.375 | 12.041667 | 0.708333 |
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Earlier, the powerful storm caused widespread destruction along the US eastern seaboard.
BBC News website readers have been in touch sharing their photos and experiences of the storm.
The hospital where I'm due to deliver was evacuated so it was a little nervewracking.
I was anxious that if I did go into labour, what we would do.
I'm having some Braxton Hicks and getting some of those pre-labour pains.
We haven't lost power so we've heard from our parents in Hertfordshire and in Kent.
My two-year-old son Alex is going a little stir crazy because we haven't been able to go outside for the last 24 hours.
I'm really looking forward to being able to take him outside and let him run around and let off steam.
We're still not allowed to get in our cars and we have been notified that we still may lose power due to the rising floodwaters.
I am British and moved to New Jersey four years ago. I am a volunteer member of the emergency medical service for our town.
This video was shot at around 09:00 on Sunday and shows some wind damage, but mostly severe flooding in Englishtown.
The water level of the lake is normally 4ft below the roadway. As you can see the level is well over the roadway causing severe flooding for about one mile.
Because this road bisects the township, ambulances are unable to travel to both sides.
Last night, an ambulance was stationed on the south side, and that is the ambulance I am with. The north side has had six calls, and we have had four.
These calls have ranged from cardiac, to water rescue from trapped cars.
The gutter to my house has been completely destroyed and there is partial damage to the roof.
In addition, both my car and my neighbour's cars have been damaged. I got partial flooding in the basement too.
Despite all this, no-one has been injured in my neck of the woods.
I think I'll be stuck at home for a week because the emergency crews came to remove the fallen tree but they didn't succeed.
I was meant to fly out this morning, but now I'm stuck here until Thursday.
I walked from East 24th Street to 9th Street just now. There's plenty of rain but only random gusts of strong wind.
I saw a few broken branches.
There were still pigeons and sparrows loitering.
No public transport, and very few cabs around. It's very quiet, most shops are closed.
Irene is just getting started with us now. Trees are falling everywhere.
Utility crews are already hard pressed in New Haven just getting tree limbs out of the way.
Roads are blocked and our house is shaking. The temperature is very warm.
Yesterday, my daughter went to the shops to stock up - the price of water has doubled in the last couple of days.
Thursday late night I bought bottles of water after New Jersey declared a state of emergency. They were the last bottles of water on the shelves.
Friday early morning was spent trying to locate flashlights as I had only recently moved back to New York from London, UK.
It took me three stores to find, as it was sold out.
I also purchased easy cook food and essentials in case the electricity was cut. I spent 45 minutes in a line that extended from the entrance of Wholefoods in Columbus circle to the checkout.
I live on the 33rd floor so gusts are powerful up here. The rain is coming down consistently hard. There's low-ceiling cloud cover so you can't even see the top of the Metlife building.
Last time I checked from my window I only saw police cars on West 34th Street, which never happens. It's one of the busiest streets in Manhattan 24/7.
There is not much I can do right now. I've prepared the best I can. It's now up to fate - wrong place at the wrong time.
I have a flashlight and candles ready in my bathroom in case of a tornado warning, or if my window caves in from the strong winds.
I'm a college student and I'm up late reading the news. It's overwhelming. The wind and the rain has started really picking up.
As far as taking precautions, we have stocked up on food and candles.
We are not too close to low-lying areas near the shore so we're not too worried but we did park our car further into the drive as the road had started to flood.
This is my first time I've witnessed anything like this. The street was blanketed with a sheet of water.
It is tense. It's amazing - the wind.
The New Jersey governor has 6,000 electricians ready to fix down power lines but I don't think that's going to be enough given the damage that is bound to happen.
It could be as much as three weeks that power may be down.
Overall state and local officials have been doing a good job to get people prepared for this - but this is a new experience for us.
I have been up all night. I'm really worried about the rain which has come down since 14:00 yesterday.
I live in north-west Philadelphia so we don't have flooding yet. About five minutes away I heard there was some flooding but the city is taking care of it.
In north-east Philadelphia the local stations say there was some power out and we have a tornado warning out.
I stocked up before the weekend. I live with my uncle and we normally have radios and batteries, so when people were losing their minds trying to get some we already had that.
Even on a good day you don't know what is going to happen.
I remember Hurricane Floyd in 1999. We've been caught in the tail end of storms before but this is just ridiculous.
Last week we had the power out several times, then the earthquake, and now this. The road outside is just mud - 12 hours straight of rain.
The houses we live around here are Victorian, so my neighbours and I should be OK. There may be some flooding in the basement.
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A brass-bound "magic" lantern and more than 100 photographic slides, that were bought from a rag-and-bone man had been valued at between £800 and £1,200.
The lot sold at Newcastle's Anderson and Garland auction house for £6,200.
Scott's 1910-1913 voyage was the first polar trip to be visually recorded. The photographer returned home early but every other team member died.
Seller Michael Wilson said it was "just stuff I've hoarded over the years".
Mr Wilson inherited the pieces from his father, who bought them for half a crown - equivalent to 22.5p.
"It was just like another toy but it was educational as well," he said. "It was interesting so it was always kept over the years.
"I think when you're a hoarder, you just can't help yourself.
"I've told myself I'm not going to buy anything else until I've cleared out everything that needs to go."
Scott wrote in his journal at the time that he would have "cinematograph and photographic record that will be absolutely new in expeditionary work".
The slides' original negatives were shot by travel photographer Herbert Ponting.
Ponting returned from the expedition early in 1912, while the remaining team ran out of food and perished.
A spokeswoman for Anderson and Garland said the sale went "very well".
She said the lot attracted wide interest, with a UK buyer putting in the winning bid.
Fragments of a coffin and robe purported to belong to St Cuthbert, which were also due to be auctioned during the three-day fine arts sale, were withdrawn.
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Pietersen, 32, has signed a new four-month England contract but must undergo a "reintegration" period before he returns to the side.
Vaughan also believes Pietersen must "behave better" than he did during a controversial summer, adding: "England are lucky to have him, but the team will want actions."
Pietersen was dropped from the national set-up in August for sending "provocative" text messages to opposing players during the Test series against South Africa.
But the Surrey player, who now has a central contract which could be extended until September 2013, apologised to ex-captain Andrew Strauss and the ECB accepts the texts were not derogatory about the former captain.
Speaking to the BBC, Vaughan said Pietersen deserved a second chance ahead of the forthcoming Test series in India, but needs to repair his fractured relationship in the dressing room.
"Most of it is down to Kevin Pietersen - probably 80% of it," added Vaughan. "The issue is, can Kevin Pietersen be allowed back in that dressing room?
"Now he has got a four month trial period and the only way to find out is to go into the dressing room, make a speech, get round with some of the players he has had issues with, and have a beer.
"He needs to iron it all out because you want to see the best players playing. The way he speaks to the team, media conferences and statements are just words, the team will want actions. They will want to see how he behaves and how he is around the players.
"I do believe people do deserve a second chance, particularly in this case. Pietersen back in an England shirt will be a good thing in the long run.
In some ways, the Pietersen situation is similar to the Carlos Tevez soap opera last season. Just a few months after his manager said he would never play for Manchester City again, Tevez came back and played a vital role in the team winning the Premier League.
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"If I was [captain] Alastair Cook I'd want Kevin Pietersen batting at number four, but I'd want him to be in a better state of mind and I'd want him to behave better than he did in the summer towards the team."
Pietersen's new central contract will cover all forms of the game, while the decision over an extension - to make it a full-year contract - will be made by team director Andy Flower, who will also decide when the "reintegration" process is complete.
Matthew Hoggard, who played alongside Vaughan and Pietersen for England, said: "I sat down with Kevin Pietersen in Australia in 2006 I think it was. There were things that Kevin was doing that I didn't really like so I sat down with him over a beer in a bar and said 'look Kev, I don't agree with this, that and that, we need to have a chat'.
"We had a chat and we came out of that bar with a lot better feelings, a lot better friends and got on with that. I think that's what needed to happen two months ago."
Former England bowler Angus Fraser told BBC Sport: "Everyone will be looking around to see how he gets on with the players and what sort of environment it's creating in the dressing room.
"Clearly there were incidents that took place and you could tell by the language some England players used that they weren't enjoying his presence in the dressing room and were quite happy when he wasn't there. They will have to change their tune now.
"The real balancing act that Andy Flower has got to look at is the positive effect Kevin Pietersen can have because of the way he bats and the runs he scores, weighing that up against it having any detrimental effect on other players."
England legend Sir Ian Botham told Sky Sports that the matter should have been sorted out "months ago".
"He knows he made a mistake but it has dragged on," said the former all-rounder. "It's going to be difficult for both parties and in the dressing room he will have some work to do. But he's a world class player and everyone wants a world class player on their side." | Former captain Michael Vaughan says Kevin Pietersen must "make a speech and have a beer" with his team-mates if he is to be accepted back into England's dressing room. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "19817336"} | 973 | 45 | 0.520822 | 1.276618 | -0.048747 | 1.857143 | 24.342857 | 0.885714 |
Today's revolution for women is knowing exactly when to expect your period, according to Ida Tin, co-founder and chief executive of the reproductive health tracking app Clue.
Although Clue is not recommended as a contraceptive, the app tracks a woman's cycle, and can predict, not only fertility and menstruation, but also related symptoms such as mood swings or PMS (premenstrual syndrome).
As is the case with many good business ideas, Ms Tin's inspiration came from personal experience.
"Our reproductive health is an incredibly foundational and central part of our lives," she says.
"I was around 30 and I wasn't on the pill, because it didn't work that well for me. I was wondering why nobody had built a really good tool to manage this part of life."
She adds: "Clue is all about empowering women. It allows women to make better individual health decisions, and to improve their overall well-being."
Ms Tin, 36, knows from experience how empowering it can be, for a woman, to take things into her own hands.
Before she founded Clue in Berlin in 2012, she spent five years running a business in her native Denmark which organised motorcycle tours around the world.
Ms Tin also wrote a best-selling book about her motorcycling exploits in far flung parts of the planet.
Ms Tin runs Clue with her co-founder and partner Hans from an open plan loft office in the German capital.
Although the business is only three years old, more than two million women in over 180 countries now use Clue, which Ms Tin says is the world's fastest-growing menstrual cycle tracking app.
She says: "We don't have a typical app user. It is a group as diverse as women are on this planet.
"A lot of girls and women are using Clue because they want to know themselves and their bodies better.
"Some women are using Clue because they're trying to get pregnant, others to get reminders to take their birth control pills, or to share their data with a doctor."
The app is free - and hasn't made the company any money yet.
However, Ms Tin hopes that it will start to generate revenue within the next few years, and is continuing to explore the best ways of doing so.
She appears to have the confidence of her investors, as Clue recently raised $7m (£4.6m) of funding from venture capital firms Union Square Ventures, which is based in New York; and London's Mosaic Ventures. This brings the total Clue has secured to $10m.
The cash is being used to expand Clue's team of 22 full-time staff, develop new features for the app and increase the number of users.
Clue is the latest addition to an increasingly crowded market place. So the search is on for ways of distinguishing itself from the competition.
Right from the start Ida was determined that the app should not be "pink" or "girly".
So the design is gender neutral - and the company is at great pains to stress the scientific nature of the way the app works.
Users have to regularly enter information into a calendar. Topics range from menstruation to motivation, and from sex drive to appetite.
According to the company, the more information you put into the app the more accurate it is. And the firm works closely with doctors and reproductive health scientists to ensure that accuracy.
When it comes to the daily running of the business, Ms Tin encourages staff to work flexibly, so as to balance their work and family lives.
"Reaching the right balance between family and work is not only a personal responsibility and choice for both women and men." she says. "It's also a company's responsibility."
The needs of Ms Tin's two children are built into her busy daily schedule. She drops her five-year-old son Elliot at kindergarten each morning, before bringing her one-year-old daughter Eleanor to the office.
Ida happily describes the toddler as an "office baby".
"It's not always easy to balance a family and a company" she says, "but I'm a very stubborn person and I am just not willing to have to choose between the two.
"It has to be possible to have a family and work on something I deeply care about."
On the day that the latest tranche of money from investors hits the company's account, there's a quiet celebration in the office.
Ms Tin is clearly excited about what the money means for the future of her young company.
"I want to build a platform for women's health data," she says, "so women can get deep insights about their body."
She raises a glass of champagne in thanks to her staff, her daughter Eleanor cradled in one arm.
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The US Presidential candidate must be treated the same as anyone else making anti-Muslim remarks, the ex-SNP leader said, and a ban would "do him good".
MPs will debate a petition on Monday urging action against Mr Trump after he called for Muslims to be denied entry to the US on counter-terrorism grounds.
Labour's Jeremy Corbyn said Mr Trump should be able to visit the UK and see the contribution made by Muslims.
The tycoon's call for a temporary ban on Muslims, which he made in response to the deadly shootings in San Bernardino in December, were criticised across the political spectrum in the US and Europe.
He caused further anger by claiming that areas of London and other parts of the UK have become so radicalised that they have become no-go areas for the police.
Despite the political backlash, Mr Trump is still leading several opinion polls in the race to be the Republican candidate for November's election ahead of the first primary contest next month.
Mr Trump, who owns the Turnberry golf course among other assets in Scotland, has threatened to cancel £700m of planned investment if he is blocked from returning to the UK.
But the former Scottish first minister, who once courted Mr Trump but whose relationship with him has deteriorated in recent months and who has been involved in a war of words with the tycoon, said he believed there were grounds for excluding him.
"What should happen is that the home secretary should consider Donald Trump's remarks in the same way as she consider the remarks of hundreds of other people and she should do it with exactly the same criteria.
"My view is that, yes, I would probably ban "The Donald" because it would do him some good. He wants to ban all Muslims from the US. I want to ban all Donald Trumps from Scotland."
The UK home secretary has the power to ban people from entering the UK on grounds of national security, if they are thought likely to incite racial hatred or if they are deemed not to be "conducive to the public good".
Theresa May has banned more than 200 people since 2010, according to figures published last year, although she has declined to comment on whether Mr Trump could be added to the list.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has joined prime minister David Cameron in opposing a ban, telling the BBC that although Mr Trump's views were "weird and off-the-wall", he would benefit from seeing first-hand how Muslims were treated in the UK and their contribution to British society.
"I decided to invite Donald Trump on his visit to Britain to come with me to my constituency because he has problems with Mexicans and he has problems with Muslims," he told the Andrew Marr Show.
"As you know my wife is Mexican and my constituency is very, very multi-cultural so what I was going to do was go down to the mosque with him and let him talk to people there."
He added: "I don't think we should ban people from coming to Britain on that basis. I think he should come here and have a lesson in going to all our cities. Why can't he go to Leicester, Birmingham and Newcastle and see that we have great diversity in our society."
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The Scots trailed 26-15 with 30 seconds left but Edinburgh wing Dougie Fife scored twice - the second in added time - to clinch a thrilling 27-26 win.
Scotland upset England 17-0 in the quarter-finals before beating USA 24-17 in the semis to reach a first final.
Fiji secured the overall title by reaching the last eight in London.
"It is just an unbelievable feeling," said Fife, 25.
"This team have come a long way and we believe we can beat anyone on our day. I think we surprised a few people today."
Scotland's previous best finish in a World Series event was fourth.
Their squad included three of the five Scots - Jamie Farndale, Scott Riddell and Mark Robertson - named in a 25-man Great Britain squad for the Olympics.
That GB squad - which includes Glasgow centre Mark Bennett and another Scotland Sevens player, Gavin Lowe - will gather on 30 May for an intensive seven-week training block to compete for the 12 places available for the Rio Games.
South Africa grabbed an early lead in the final via Seabelo Senatla but tries from Farndale and captain Scott Wight saw the Scots lead 10-7 at half-time.
Converted scores from Roscko Speckman and Cecil Afrika put South Africa in control at 21-10 before Scotland's James Fleming made it 21-15.
Speckman's second try appeared to have sealed it, but Fife, who has won six Test caps for Scotland, pounced with 25 seconds left.
Then, after South Africa failed to retain possession at the kick-off, he sprinted over again in added time to clinch a dramatic victory.
"It has probably not sunk in yet," said captain Wight. "We were a long way behind in the final, but we stuck to task and got there in the end."
England, who topped their pool after wins over Fiji, Australia and Wales, were beaten 35-10 by New Zealand in the Plate semi-finals after their last-eight loss to Scotland in the main event.
"Today is very tough to take," said head coach Simon Amor. "Scotland are a good team and you can't afford to give them time and space with the ball.
"They moved us around brilliantly, we couldn't get our hands on the ball, and in sevens possession is everything."
Wales lost all three pool matches on Saturday but won the Bowl final 24-19 against Australia, after earlier wins against Kenya in the quarter-finals and Canada in the semis. | Scotland snatched a first World Sevens Series title with a last-gasp victory over South Africa in the London Sevens final at Twickenham. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36354998"} | 585 | 37 | 0.526871 | 1.309772 | 0.335697 | 1.28 | 20.44 | 0.88 |
Fast forward to present day: now, the Philippines wants Chinese cash.
What happened? Well in part there is a genuine dilemma here for the Philippines.
It's a small island country, stuck on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific, surrounded by much larger, powerful nations.
The Philippines' main source of income and military assistance has been from its former colonial masters, the United States.
It also has a large population to find jobs for, and urgent infrastructure projects to fund, none of which it can do on its own.
So the Philippines is left playing a hedging game between the US and China - the world's old superpower and the new.
Despite competing claims in the South China Sea, Manila is now softening its stance in a bid to woo investment from Beijing.
"At this point it is very important for us to build confidence in each other," Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez told me in an interview in Singapore.
"We are not abandoning any claims [in the SCS] but the President thinks that this is the time to be more friendly rather than contentious."
But it wasn't always such a cordial relationship.
As recently as 2014, Chinese investment into the Philippines was worth a paltry US$42m, a fraction of what Beijing has invested in the rest of the South East Asian region - in part due to the suspicion many in Manila had over Beijing's motivations.
The new-found friendship that has blossomed under President Rodrigo Duterte is no doubt helped in part by the massive chequebook China has to finance the loans he needs to implement his "build, build, build" policy that is expected to cost US$180bn over the next six years.
As part of this new strategy, Secretary Dominguez also told me that the Philippines is launching a US$200m bond issue to China for the first time in October, to try and tap investment in the country.
But investment from China never comes without strings attached, I pointed out to him - and the list of Asian countries that have taken loans from Beijing only to find themselves unable to pay these debts back is growing fast. Is the Philippines next?
Secretary Dominguez was quick to dismiss such concerns.
"We think Chinese loans can be beneficial to us, particularly if we negotiate them in a clever manner," he told me. "Nobody is forcing it down our throats."
It's an argument I've heard from many Asian officials who privately have told me that the money from Beijing is too good to ignore, and are convinced that they will be able to exploit the relationship to their own advantage.
But it's also a dangerous path to tread.
"There are a lot of cautionary tales around the region of countries that come out on the losing end," Maria Ressa, chief executive of the Rappler website and long-time Philippines observer told me.
"The Duterte administration acknowledges that we are weaker, but that we also have something to offer China. They're trying something new - but are they really as clever as they say they are? We will have to wait and see."
For now though, it does look like China has the upper hand.
Beijing's One Belt One Road initiative, a massive infrastructure project across most of the world has also convinced many Asian partners that China's interest in them is for the long term.
Meanwhile, increasingly Asian countries feel that their traditional ally, the US, has become unreliable since Mr Trump was elected. Even if they won't say it publicly, the shift in economic and business strategy is revealing.
"Our business with the US will continue, but not be as big a part of the economy as the past," Secretary Dominguez told me. "We used to have only American cars in the sixties….now we are seeing Chinese motorcycles. We have to move with the times."
China's cash may come with its own set of unique complications but the view from here is at least it's paying attention to what Asia needs. | Two years ago the Philippines was entrenched in the bitterest of disputes with regional giant China, bringing a David v Goliath-style case against it over the South China Sea islands. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40957867"} | 880 | 44 | 0.393597 | 1.004821 | 0.23619 | 1.029412 | 23.558824 | 0.558824 |
A bid was submitted last year by supporters who say the industry has shaped the social, political, economic and cultural landscape of Wales.
A World Heritage Site is chosen for its outstanding universal value to culture, history or science.
Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan said heritage status would boost tourism.
Gwynedd's slate industry is one of the final 11 contenders announced by UK Tourism and Heritage Minister John Penrose to form the new tentative list for potential nominations for the status.
The 11 sites have been whittled down from 38.
Nominations from the list will be submitted from 2012 based on the strength of their case.
Mrs Gillan said the slate industry had played a dominant role in shaping the landscape and economy of north Wales since the 19th Century.
"Tourism is vitally important to the north Wales economy," she said bringing in up to £1.8bn of income to the region and supporting around 37,000 jobs.
'Global significance'
"Heritage status would help show the world just what Wales has to offer - from areas of outstanding beauty to dramatic industrial heritage."
Gwynedd council leader Dyfed Edwards said: "I am delighted that the government has recognised the global significance of the Gwynedd slate quarrying industry, and am now looking forward to working with Gwynedd's slate communities and our partners to develop our submission to Unesco."
The entire process of being selected for world heritage status can take between five and 10 years.
The bid must now move onto a nomination list where it will be assessed by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
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Peter Wrighton's body was found on Saturday near Fiveways Junction, three miles south of East Harling in Norfolk.
An inquest heard he had been stabbed repeatedly and died from "incised wounds to the neck".
Detectives want to trace three men who were seen around the woodland near the time Mr Wrighton was attacked.
Updates on this story and other Norfolk news
CCTV images have been released of Mr Wrighton, of The Moor, Banham, using a post office in Kenninghall at 10:10 BST, just 35 minutes before his body was found in the woods.
The drive between the post office and the woodland takes at least 10 minutes. He was found dead at 10:45 BST.
No-one has yet been arrested, and the murder weapon has not yet been found.
At a news conference on Thursday afternoon, Det Supt Andy Smith described the investigation as "large-scale, complex and detailed".
He said officers were appealing specifically to three men who police are yet to trace as potential witnesses.
The first is white, in his 50s, with pale skin and grey or white hair balding on top. He was believed to be wearing heavy-rimmed glasses and light-coloured trousers, and was seen in The Street changing into a white T-shirt.
The second man is white with a tanned complexion, aged 25 to 30, 5ft 9in to 5ft 11in, with an athletic build, short, dark wavy hair and dark eyes.
He was wearing a grey or blue T-shirt, grey floppy gym-style shorts above the knee and heavy duty flip-flops. He was seen within the boundary of the woodland site which police are searching.
The third man is described as a white male, aged 30 to 50, of medium build, who wore dark-coloured clothing and was seen walking without a dog in the northern area of the heath.
An inquest into the death of Mr Wrighton, of The Moor, Banham, opened in Norwich and adjourned for a review on 14 December.
The hearing, at Norfolk Coroner's Court, was told Mr Wrighton was a retired BT engineer who was born in Tottenham, London.
His body was formally identified by his wife Ann at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital on Tuesday.
A post-mortem examination recorded the medical cause of death as "incised wounds to the neck".
Mr Wrighton's family and his wife of 59 years described him as "a lovely, gentle husband, dad and grandfather".
He had a "kind nature" and had a "love of walking his dogs and chatting with people to pass the time of day", his family said. | Police investigating the murder of an 83-year-old dog walker who was attacked in woodland have released descriptions of three "vital" potential witnesses. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40887520"} | 585 | 33 | 0.445677 | 1.177447 | 0.438087 | 1.103448 | 18.275862 | 0.758621 |
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) ruled that Dr Waney Squier had given irresponsible evidence outside her area of expertise.
Dr Squier, 67, based at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, disputed the existence of "shaken baby syndrome".
She said she was "devastated" and stands by her evidence.
The MPTS considered her work as an expert witness in six cases, including the deaths of four babies and a 19-month-old child.
In each case, Dr Squier, a paediatric neuropathologist, gave evidence stating the injuries were not consistent with non-accidental injury, or were more likely to have been caused by other means.
Updates on this story and more from Oxfordshire
But the panel found she misrepresented research to support her views and had brought the reputation of her profession into disrepute.
Her minority view on shaken baby syndrome was in contrast to the opinions of the majority of experts in the field, who argue the so-called triad - swelling of the brain, bleeding between the skull and brain and bleeding in the retina - is a strong indicator of abuse.
The panel heard Dr Squier disagreed with those opinions unless there was other evidence of external or internal injury.
In her evidence, she was "dogmatic, inflexible and unreceptive to any other view" which led her "to misrepresent and 'cherry-pick' from the literature", it said.
After the finding, Dr Squier said: "I've done my best to give an opinion based on my experience, based on the best evidence I can find to support my view."
She added that it was "backed by many, many people who are cleverer than I am, who are scientists".
Opening the case last October for the General Medical Council (GMC), Tom Kark QC said Dr Squier's conduct was affected by her "preconceived and blinkered approach".
He said: "She failed in her overriding duty to the court to remain objective and to assist the court."
Mr Kark added that among those misled would have been the families and other parties to litigation - the judges, lawyers and the other experts.
In most of the cases, Dr Squier - who had not actively worked in paediatrics for more than 40 years - was the sole expert instructed on one side of the litigation.
The panel was told she had given evidence in between 150 and 200 cases since the mid-1990s involving either medical negligence or cause of deaths in early months and years of life.
The hearing has been adjourned until next Monday, when the panel will consider whether Dr Squier's fitness to practise is impaired because of her misconduct.
Analysis: Dominic Hughes, BBC News Health Correspondent
This case reflects a wider, bitter row within the scientific community over the signs associated with babies that have been subject to violent shaking.
The majority view is that a combination of three brain injuries - known as the triad - must be present: swelling of the brain, bleeding between the skull and the brain, and bleeding in the retina.
Dr Squier holds a minority view that these injuries can occur in other ways, for example through a baby suffering injuries while falling over.
Having once been an expert witness for the prosecution, Dr Squier switched to the defence team.
Her friends argue she is now subject to a witch hunt. But an independent panel has found she overstepped the boundaries of what is expected of an expert witness.
Panorama: Shaken Babies: What's the Truth? on Monday 14 March at 20:30 GMT on BBC One. | A leading doctor who was an expert witness for parents accused of killing their children has been found to have misled courts. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35787095"} | 787 | 25 | 0.381444 | 1.056422 | 0.229432 | 1.347826 | 30.391304 | 0.652174 |
The midfielder, 32, was taken off on a stretcher in the 76th minute of the 2-1 loss at the Emirates Stadium.
"It doesn't look like a quick one. He is waiting to see the specialist today [Thursday] so we should know more after that," Dyche said.
Marney has made 21 appearances this season, and scored one goal.
The former Tottenham and Hull player also suffered cruciate knee ligament damage in February 2015. | Burnley's Dean Marney will be out "long term" after suffering a cruciate knee ligament injury in Sunday's defeat at Arsenal, manager Sean Dyche confirmed. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38759164"} | 103 | 39 | 0.679902 | 1.35001 | 0.337712 | 0.633333 | 3.066667 | 0.433333 |
Microsoft, which last bid in 2008, joins a host of other companies which are considering buying Yahoo, one of the internet's best-known brands.
China's giant internet company Alibaba has already said it might buy Yahoo.
Rumours of a bid from Vodafone also pushed shares in Blackberry maker, Research in Motion, 12% higher.
Yahoo shares jumped 10.1% to close at $15.92 and Microsoft shares ended 2.2% higher at $25.89.
Yahoo's current market value is $20bn (£13bn), compared with Microsoft's previous bid of around $45bn.
Neither party has made any official comment.
Microsoft is said to be divided as to whether it would make sense to mount such a bid.
Reasons in favour include the ability to beat AOL as a competitor by creating a stronger web portal.
Microsoft already has an agreement with Yahoo involving its Bing internet search engine, which powers Yahoo's search but gives 88% of advertising revenue back to Yahoo.
Combing the two could give Yahoo 30% of the US search market, according to analysts.
According to the latest figures from research firm comScore, Google has 64.8% of the US search market, Yahoo has 16.3% and Microsoft 14.7%.
But Yahoo is seen as lacking in growth potential.
Early last month, Yahoo fired its chief executive in a row over the company's future direction.
It said last month that it had received "inbound interest" from a number of parties.
Sid Parakh, analyst at fund firm McAdams Wright Ragen, told the Reuters news agency: "There are many reasons why this thing probably makes sense.
"If you strip out the variety of assets Yahoo owns, you are pretty much paying nothing for the core business." | Shares in the internet portal firm Yahoo have leapt 10% on rumours that Microsoft is considering a second attempt at a takeover. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "15193433"} | 377 | 32 | 0.616511 | 1.429572 | 0.098129 | 0.958333 | 14.5 | 0.708333 |
By the end of last year, 141,569 shotguns were held on certificate along with 72,005 firearms. Those figures represented a 10-year high.
The number of licences issued by the end of 2012 was 48,168, which represented a 10-year low.
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said the weapons belonged to people who "had a legitimate reason for owning it".
He also made a fresh plea for responsibility for firearms to be devolved to Scotland, as he said it was "still cheaper to buy a firearms licence than a TV licence across the UK".
The figures from Scotland's chief statistician showed that there was an increase in the number of registered firearm dealers in Scotland to 353, a 2% increase on the previous year and the highest total for the last decade.
A total of 1,149 applications were made for a new firearms certificate last year, with all but 12 of these granted.
Meanwhile, 1,926 applications were made for a new shotgun certificate, of which 38 were refused.
Mr MacAskill said: "Scotland's police work extremely hard to make firearms owners aware of their responsibilities and at having the right procedures in place to prevent firearms from being used in criminal ways.
"However, firearms legislation remains reserved and it is still cheaper to buy a firearms licence than a TV licence across the UK.
"While I welcome the moves to tighten this legislation over recent years, there is no doubt that devolving this area will give the Scottish government the powers to better control the number of lethal weapons in society and thereby help to protect and reassure the Scottish public." | Scotland has fewer people with firearm licences but they own more guns, the latest statistics have shown. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "22702176"} | 364 | 22 | 0.61333 | 1.430746 | -0.251915 | 0.473684 | 16.421053 | 0.473684 |
Lyle Zimmerman, who moved from the US in 2001, was attacked by Muhiddin Mire at Leytonstone station on 5 December.
The medical researcher said he felt "spectacularly lucky" as a doctor was passing-by and thanked a man and woman who kept Mire away.
Mire, 30, was found guilty of attempted murder at the Old Bailey this month.
Mr Zimmerman, 57, was on his way to play with a band when he was attacked.
"I remember being struck a few times... being kicked, covering my head up with my arms and then the picture goes blank so I assume he must have kicked me hard enough to knock me out.
"I don't have any recollection of the knife or having my throat cut, the next thing I do remember is about five minutes later being on the stairs back up to the platform being attended to by an off-duty GP who was miraculously passing," he said.
He felt "spectacularly lucky - the knife apparently broke on my neck; there was a doctor wandering by".
As the doctor attended to him, a man and a woman confronted Mire.
"These guys are extraordinarily brave - both the man and the woman who verbally engaged and got him to move away from me and the doctor."
Mr Zimmerman said he was determined that the attack would have a "trivial" effect on him after a doctor in the hospital where he was treated said he had "life-changing injuries".
"I remember cheerily waving my hand from the hospital bed and saying: 'No I don't, I'm determined not to let this change my life'."
Mr Zimmerman said he had decided to speak out in the wake of the latest mass shooting in the US, when a lone gunman killed 49 people in Orlando.
He said Mire would have claimed many victims if gun control in the UK had not been so strict.
"I feel more free from the threat of lethal violence, even though somebody apparently tried to remove my head," he added.
Mire will be sentenced on 27 July. | The man whose neck was slashed by an Islamic extremist at an east London Tube station has said he is "determined not to let this change my life". | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36560159"} | 467 | 37 | 0.420154 | 1.107011 | -0.031781 | 2.806452 | 13.451613 | 0.741935 |
Former owner Dicky Evans has returned as a director as part of a £1.5m 're-capitalisation' of the club, which includes a tie-up with the Chiefs Super Rugby franchise.
"The club was in great danger of going under," Evans told BBC Radio Cornwall.
"I wouldn't have let it, no matter what happened, because my heart is in the club."
Evans, who saved the club from bankruptcy in 1990s, left in the summer of 2014, but agreed to remain a sponsor for the next two seasons.
This summer, after his sponsorship ran out, the club were forced to part company with director of rugby Ian Davies in a cost-cutting measure and operate with a smaller playing squad.
However, Evans, New Zealand-based Cornish businessman Colin Groves, shareholder Martin Hudson and former England player Martin Haag have all joined the Pirates board, with chairman Ian Connell among three directors stepping down.
"We had a situation where I had to come back to help fund the club going forward.
"We've got a good plan and a good club going forward and I've never felt more excited about the Pirates," Evans continued.
"I won't be putting as much money in as I did before, the money I put in before was just sponsorship, the money that goes in now is in terms of a shareholding.
"I'm putting in quite a lot of money this year, we've got to survive."
Under the plans, the Waikato-based Chiefs will provide commercial and coaching assistance to the Pirates.
"The Chiefs have a strategy to build four worldwide international partnerships, we've got two already, one in Japan and one in south east Asia, so it's a natural thing to develop one in the UK," said chairman Dallas Fisher.
"There's am lot of similarities between Waikato where we're based and Cornwall and we're very excited about the opportunity to put something together.
"We're working on finalising a high-performance partnership with the Chiefs which would see coach swaps and the exchange of rugby intellectual property.
"The aim is the have that in place so we can start exchanges in May next year."
Evans has also hinted that former Pirates coach Chris Stirling could return to the club.
Currently the high performance manager of the Hurricanes Super Rugby franchise in Wellington, Stirling coached at the Mennaye between 2008 and 2012, taking charge of the side from February 2009 until his departure.
"He said if the time is right and there's a possibility, we could actually take it forward," Evans added.
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Kazi Islam, 18, is accused of grooming 19-year-old Harry Thomas to buy ingredients for a pipe bomb and to kill two soldiers.
He used "flattery and threats" to incite Mr Thomas, the Old Bailey heard.
Mr Islam, from Newham, east London, denies preparing to commit acts of terrorism.
Prosecutor Annabel Darlow QC said Mr Islam had befriended Mr Thomas in October 2013 by pretending to sympathise with him over a break-up with a girlfriend.
He went on to encourage Mr Thomas to kill a soldier by telling him stories about innocent children being murdered by military forces, she told the court.
A series of exchanges on BlackBerry Messenger and social media sites were uncovered when police raided the house in east London where Mr Islam lived with his family, jurors were told.
In the exchanges, he encouraged Mr Thomas to buy the component parts of an improvised explosive device - referring to it in code as "cake", the court heard.
The Old Bailey was told Mr Islam's attempt to keep his plans covert failed when Mr Thomas replied: "cake? U mean the b o m b [sic]."
The court also heard how Mr Islam repeatedly praised the actions of those who had murdered Fusilier Rigby in Woolwich in May 2013 and actively encouraged Mr Thomas to take the life of one or more soldiers.
One message read to the court said: "When I give you the order I want you to kill a soldier..2 soldiers..not yet though."
Mr Islam allegedly asked Mr Thomas if he would carry out an attack similar to the one in which Fusilier Rigby was killed, asking him to "get a meat cleaver or a kitchen knife".
The Old Bailey heard that while Mr Islam was arrested in August 2014 and later charged, Mr Thomas was not arrested since a search of his home and examination of his electronic devices found nothing to incriminate him.
Mr Thomas will not be giving evidence as a witness in the trial.
Ms Darlow said: "As the messages between Harry Thomas and the defendant expose all too clearly, Thomas was a vulnerable, not particularly bright young man who was desperate to impress Islam and to try and forge some sort of friendship with him.
"Islam ruthlessly exploited to the utmost Thomas' vulnerability and obvious wish to try and ingratiate himself with Islam."
She added: "Rather than risk his own neck by going out and trying to assemble the necessary component for a bomb, he tried to exploit others - Thomas in particular - to buy the components for a bomb."
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Aya Parker died in the early hours of Sunday morning despite the efforts of police and paramedics at a property in Britton Gardens in Kingswood, Bristol.
Lee Parker, 33, of Britton Gardens, appeared before Bristol Magistrates' Court on Thursday to face the murder charge.
He was remanded in custody to appear before the court again on Friday.
Mr Parker was charged on Wednesday.
At the short hearing, no details about the case were given and he was not asked to enter a plea.
Chair of the bench Louise Perkins told Mr Parker that his case would now be dealt with by the crown court. | A man has appeared in court charged with murdering his six-month-old daughter on Christmas Day. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38459446"} | 139 | 22 | 0.437895 | 0.87119 | -1.104023 | 0.45 | 6.05 | 0.45 |
Toyota driver Jose Maria Lopez was taken to hospital after crashing into the barriers at Silverstone, forcing the team to make lengthy repairs.
However, Buemi made a move on Brendon Hartley with 12 minutes remaining to secure Toyota's 11th WEC win.
Porsche took the second and third spot in the season's opener.
The second round of the competition will take place at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium on 4-6 May. | Briton Anthony Davidson and Toyota team-mates Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima won the first round of the FIA World Endurance Championship. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39624823"} | 98 | 42 | 0.516071 | 1.034935 | -0.480299 | 0.708333 | 3.458333 | 0.458333 |
The 12-metre inflatable stopped cars on a busy road after strong winds had ripped the yellow giant loose from a nearby fairground.
No one was injured with one local calling the incident "a bit of fun".
The police, with the help of passers-by, eventually managed to let the air out of the yellow inflatable and took it away in a wheelbarrow. | A giant minion has been causing chaos in Dublin, Ireland. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33776388"} | 79 | 15 | 0.376899 | 0.77593 | -1.596828 | 0.416667 | 6.166667 | 0.416667 |
Members of the country's largest teaching union, the EIS, have voted overwhelmingly for a work to rule.
Their concerns are related to the work linked to the new school qualifications.
Education Secretary John Swinney said: "The result of today's ballot is disappointing albeit on what appears to be a low turnout."
He added: "Given that we are addressing the issues of teacher workload, industrial action in our schools would not be in the interests of anyone, least of all pupils and parents. "
The union said members voted in favour of action by 95% to 5%.
The work to rule will be targeted at the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) - there is no suggestion of school activities being affected.
Possible action might include refusing to provide cover for colleagues absent on SQA business and not attending SQA seminars and sticking to working time agreements on any work associated with developing the qualifications.
The union said it would be issuing guidance to members immediately over what they should stop doing.
Earlier this week, the Scottish government called on unions to come up with ideas for cutting the workload.
General secretary Larry Flanagan said: "Scotland's secondary teachers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action against the severe workload burden that has been generated by the Scottish Qualifications Authority.
"This ballot result reflects the frustration of Scotland's secondary teachers over the excessive assessment demands being placed on them and their pupils, particularly around unit assessments at National 5 and Higher; and the EIS now has a very clear mandate to implement an immediate work-to-contract in relation to SQA activity."
Mr Flanagan added: "The target of this industrial action is both SQA bureaucracy and excessive internal unit assessment, with its associated workload burden for teachers and unacceptable assessment pressures on students.
"It is not our intention that this action should impact directly on pupils, and teachers will continue to teach classes normally and to assess pupils' work.
"We will be issuing guidance to our members advising which SQA-related activities they should withdraw co-operation from, and which activities teachers should continue to undertake as normal."
Mr Swinney said that he and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon were already taking steps to tackle bureaucracy and "free up teachers to teach" and were considering further measures.
These included creating a working group, involving the teacher unions, to focus on what more needed to be done to embed the new qualifications and to reduce assessment workload.
He said the chief inspector of education had written to schools with guidance on national expectations on qualifications and assessment that would further reduce unnecessary workload on teachers and provide clarity.
"Schools have a responsibility to apply this guidance, which will directly assist in reducing workload." he said.
"The concerns raised by teachers are being addressed - but we recognise there is more to be done to free up our teachers to teach for the benefit of all in our education system."
A spokesman for the SQA said: "We are disappointed the EIS has decided to take this action, particularly when we have taken steps to alleviate teacher workload without compromising national standards and maintaining the integrity and credibility of the qualifications.
"The priority of the entire education system is to work together to ensure the best possible learning opportunities are provided to our young people. We are deeply concerned that, as a result of this action, these opportunities could be jeopardised." | Secondary teachers in Scotland are set to take industrial action over their "excessive" workload. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36550033"} | 722 | 21 | 0.550648 | 1.355577 | 0.039607 | 1.411765 | 39.411765 | 0.941176 |
It saw the Englishman, who dropped out of the world's top 10 last month for the first time since winning the Green Jacket in April, climb into tied third.
Spaniard Cabrera-Bello carded a 65 to lead on 11 under par, three shots ahead of Australia's Sam Brazel in Fanling.
England's Tommy Fleetwood is alongside compatriot Willett at six under par.
Willett, who pulled out of the World Cup of Golf last month with a back injury, holed six birdies to move up the leaderboard.
"It's nice to be in this position after the last few months," said the 29-year-old. "I came out here probably as fresh as I've been for a month and a half."
Fellow Englishman and defending champion Justin Rose finished the day on one under par and said he had been worried about missing the cut until he rolled in three late birdies.
"I was on plus one halfway through the back nine. From that point, you're aware of the cut line and it was nice just to get it," said the Olympic gold medallist. | Masters champion Danny Willett shot a four-under-par 66 to move five strokes behind leader Rafa Cabrera-Bello at the Hong Kong Open on Friday. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38259945"} | 251 | 42 | 0.517006 | 1.09394 | 0.143045 | 0.8 | 7.3 | 0.533333 |
Chris Long went close to putting the visitors ahead when his long-range drive was saved by keeper Matt Ingram.
But the hosts went in front through Ngbakoto when he fired home on the rebound from Darnell Furlong's header.
Northampton almost equalised with 10 minutes remaining, but Leon Lobjoit's header was cleared by Ryan Manning.
Match ends, Queens Park Rangers 1, Northampton Town 0.
Second Half ends, Queens Park Rangers 1, Northampton Town 0.
George Smith (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Michael Petrasso (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by George Smith (Northampton Town).
Attempt blocked. Matt Crooks (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Ilias Chair (Queens Park Rangers).
Matt Crooks (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Darnell Furlong (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Leon Lobjoit (Northampton Town).
Yeni N'Gbakoto (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yaser Kasim (Northampton Town).
Attempt missed. Leon Lobjoit (Northampton Town) left footed shot from outside the box is too high following a corner.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Nedum Onuoha.
Attempt blocked. Aaron Phillips (Northampton Town) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by George Smith.
Attempt blocked. Yeni N'Gbakoto (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Yeni N'Gbakoto (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Ilias Chair (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Conor Washington (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Darnell Furlong (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by George Smith (Northampton Town).
Attempt blocked. Marc Richards (Northampton Town) header from more than 35 yards is blocked.
Attempt saved. Ryan Manning (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Jack Robinson (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Billy Waters (Northampton Town).
Substitution, Northampton Town. George Smith replaces David Buchanan.
Attempt missed. Michael Petrasso (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Leon Lobjoit (Northampton Town) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Nedum Onuoha.
Attempt missed. Conor Washington (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by Aaron Pierre.
Attempt blocked. Yeni N'Gbakoto (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Michael Petrasso replaces Idrissa Sylla because of an injury.
Delay in match Idrissa Sylla (Queens Park Rangers) because of an injury.
Corner, Queens Park Rangers. Conceded by David Buchanan.
Attempt blocked. Darnell Furlong (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Leon Lobjoit replaces Chris Long.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Marc Richards replaces Alex Revell.
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The Belgium international, 24, arrived in Glasgow on Sunday to become manager Ronny Deila's first summer signing in a deal worth around £1.5m.
Boyata made six appearances for City last season but was unable to secure a regular first-team place.
Speaking to Celtic's website, he described the Scottish Premiership champions as "a very big club".
Since moving to Manchester to be part of City's youth squad in 2006, Boyata had loan spells at Bolton Wanderers and FC Twente between 2011 and 2013.
His only senior cap came as a substitute against Austria in 2010.
Boyata will effectively replace countryman Jason Denayer, who is returning to Manchester City after a season-long loan, while Deila is keen to keep Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk.
"The manager came to see me in Manchester and I spoke to him about having me here and all the ideas he had for me playing for the team," added Boyata.
"So I was very pleased with his plans and from that point I thought that moving to Celtic would be a good idea and we tried to do everything right for me to move here." | Celtic have signed defender Dedryck Boyata from Manchester City on a four-year contract. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32954918"} | 262 | 23 | 0.491737 | 1.150019 | -0.637582 | 0.75 | 14.5625 | 0.625 |
The military offensive has led to the destruction of some drug gangs, splits within others and the emergence of new groups.
With widespread corruption and impunity exacerbating Mexico's problems, there is no end in sight to the violence.
Which are the most powerful cartels today? And who is behind them?
Founded in the late 1980s, the Sinaloa cartel headed by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has long been considered Mexico's most powerful criminal organisation.
Having outfought several rival groups, the Sinaloa cartel dominates much of north-west Mexico and makes billions of dollars from trafficking illicit narcotics to the United States, Europe and Asia.
However, the cartel's future is uncertain after Guzmán was recaptured in 2016 following two daring prison breaks. He was extradited to the US in January and now awaits trial in New York.
Sinaloa's strongest competitor is its former armed wing, the Jalisco New Generation cartel. Formed around 2010, the Jalisco cartel has expanded rapidly and aggressively across Mexico and is now challenging Sinaloa for control of strategic areas, including Tijuana and the port of Manzanillo.
The Jalisco cartel is blamed for a series of attacks on security forces and public officials, including downing an army helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade in 2015. Mexico's Attorney General Raul Cervantes recently declared it the nation's largest criminal organisation.
Guzmán's latest arrest created a split within the Sinaloa cartel, fuelling rising violence in the region.
On one side are Guzmán's sons, Ivan Archivaldo and Jesus Alfredo. On the other side, his former associate Dámaso López Núñez, alias "El Licenciado", and his son Dámaso López Serrano.
Guzmán's son were kidnapped at a restaurant in Puerto Vallarta last year but released days later. López Senior was among the suspected culprits. Guzmán's sons also accused him of leading them into a near-fatal ambush in February.
López Senior was arrested in Mexico City in May. The cartel leadership remains under dispute.
Guzmán's older brother Aureliano is another influential figure vying for control, while Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, alias "Chapo Isidro", has emerged as one of the cartel's powerful local adversaries.
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, an elusive veteran who ran the Sinaloa cartel alongside Guzmán, is one of the Mexican government's primary objectives.
Aged 69, Zambada is nearing retirement but is said to retain strong influence behind the scenes. Mexico offers a 30 million peso (£1.2m) reward for information leading to his capture.
Ruben Oseguera, alias "El Mencho", the head of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, is another of Mexico's most wanted kingpins. A former police officer and avocado vendor, he is the subject of a two million peso (£82,000) bounty.
Rafael Caro Quintero, the founder of the now-defunct Guadalajara cartel, is the DEA's most wanted fugitive. Convicted of the abduction, torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena in 1985, he served 28 years of a 40-year sentence in Mexico before being released after a court ruled he should have been tried in a state rather than a federal court.
The US state department offers rewards of up to $5m (£3.8m) for information on Caro Quintero, Zambada or Oseguera.
In eastern Mexico, the Gulf cartel and their fearsome former allies Los Zetas have been weakened by killings and arrests of top leaders, leading to splits within both groups.
In western Michoacán state, the pseudo-religious Knights Templar and La Familia cartels have been largely vanquished by vigilante groups, although the region remains contested by their remnants and several newer gangs.
To the north, the once mighty Juárez, Tijuana and Beltrán-Leyva cartels have all been weakened by Sinaloa cartel offensives.
Mexico's criminal landscape has grown more fragmented since then-President Felipe Calderón sent the army to combat the cartels in December 2006.
The government succeeded in capturing or killing the leaders of the biggest cartels, but this led to many smaller and often more violent gangs springing up in their place.
Without the capacity for transnational drug trafficking, these gangs deal in kidnapping, extortion, human trafficking, illegal logging and mining, and stealing oil from government pipelines.
The level of violence dropped after the election of President Enrique Peña Nieto in 2012, but it has shot up dramatically in the last two years, with 2017 on course to be the worst year on record.
Activists and journalists are routinely murdered, while corruption and impunity remain rampant.
The legalisation of marijuana in parts of the US has driven Mexico's cartels to push harder drugs like methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid. This has fuelled an epidemic north of the border, with over 33,000 Americans dying from opioid-related overdoses in 2015, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Mexico's cartels are notorious for their extreme violence. Beheadings and torture have become commonplace over the past decade.
Victims are sometimes hung from bridges or dissolved in barrels of acid. Some cartels post graphic execution videos on social media to intimidate their enemies.
Mexico registered 188,567 murders from December 2006 until May 2017, according to government records.
With 2,186 murders, May was the most violent month since records began in 1997.
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Developing such a treatment is one of the biggest challenges in medicine.
But serious scientific questions remain as the drug - LMTX - inexplicably works only in patients not taking other dementia pills.
The data on 891 patients was presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Toronto.
Overall, the trial - which treated patients for 15 months - was a flop, as there appeared to be no benefit to taking LMTX.
However, an analysis on just the 15% of the patients who had not already been taking drugs to help manage their symptoms showed a benefit.
In this tiny subset of patients, tests showed thinking power was maintained and MRI scans found the death of brain cells was reduced.
Yet there are certainly too few patients in the sub-group to be certain of the drug's effect.
Dr Serge Gauthier, the director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit at McGill University in Canada, said: "It is both encouraging to see improvements of this magnitude in the standard cognitive and functional tests and reassuring to see the supporting brain scan evidence of a slowing in disease progression.
"In a field that has been plagued by consistent failures of novel drug candidates in late-stage clinical trials and where there has been no practical therapeutic advance for over a decade, I am excited."
Even the company that manufactures LMTX, TauRX, cannot explain why it might work only in patients not taking other dementia drugs.
Dr David Reynolds, the chief scientific officer at the Alzheimer's Research UK charity, told the BBC News website: "It does worry me as a scientist why it doesn't work with other therapies."
Possible explanations include:
Dr Reynolds added: "The data suggests it is slowing down the disease, but the important caveat is these small numbers.
"It is encouraging, but we need more data and will have to run a study with it as just a monotherapy [on its own].
"It will still be a years from reaching patients even assuming it works."
The drug targets one of the key characteristics of Alzheimeir's disease - the build of of tangles of the protein tau inside neurons.
It is thought these tangles may be the final stage that leads to the death of brain cells.
The study was eagerly awaited as it was the first to present large-scale data in patients on a drug that prevents tau tangles building up.
Dr Doug Brown, director of research and development at the Alzheimer's Society, said: "While it's disappointing to see another large clinical trial for Alzheimer's disease fail to meet its goal, there appear to have been some striking improvements for the subset of people who took the drug on its own.
"After years of failure, we are now starting to see glimmers of hope for dementia drug trials.
"The headway being made through research is starting to give a real sense of the possibility that we could one day stop dementia in its tracks." | A drug appears to slow the brain's death and preserve mental function in patients with Alzheimer's disease, a study shows. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36906554"} | 646 | 28 | 0.460428 | 1.184183 | 0.301217 | 1.25 | 24.416667 | 0.75 |
The Dons initially toiled to get the better of the Latvian side, but Stockey bulleted in a cross from Jonny Hayes.
Within five minutes Adam Rooney's left foot shot made it two.
And a minute after coming off the bench for his debut, on-loan Bristol City winger Burns headed in a third.
The Latvians offered little other than a half chance in the opening 45 minutes, and the win means the Dons will head to the Baltics confident they can finish the job.
McInnes's side were keen to exorcise the ghosts of Luxembourg and last week's shock loss to Fola Esch, and they almost grabbed the lead inside three minutes as Kenny McLean headed a Hayes cross over.
However, there was an anxiety about the Dons after that with their Latvian visitors happy to sit in and frustrate with loose balls and an inconsistent referee irking the home fans.
Indeed Ventspils missed an opportunity to plunder an away goal when centre half Nikita Kolesovs sliced an effort well wide after goalkeeper Joe Lewis flapped at a well driven corner.
Hayes and Rooney combined with the latter firing wide with the ball just behind him, before Graeme Shinnie was unlucky to see his effort saved by Maksims Uvarenko in the tie's first save of note.
Niall McGinn was a driving force for the hosts and almost opened the scoring from a well struck free-kick just after half-time though it was well saved by Uvarenko.
Ventspils offered little and if anything, appeared inferior to Fola with little invention or ambition.
But whilst the score-line was blank, the doubts remained.
That was until McInnes rolled the dice, sending Stockley on for McLean and within seconds he headed a Hayes cross home at the far post.
The lead was doubled five minutes later as the tireless Rooney calmly rolled home into the bottom left.
McInnes was visibly keen for more and the potential tie-killer arrived in the first minute of injury time as Burns scored almost instantly upon his arrival from the bench.
It was a beautiful reverse header from a McGinn corner and the young Welshman was no sooner arriving at Pittodrie on loan from Bristol City than he was taking the acclaim of the home crowd. | Jayden Stockley and Wes Burns scored their first goals for Aberdeen as Derek McInnes' side saw off Ventspils in the Europa League second round qualifier first leg at Pittodrie. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36761227"} | 541 | 45 | 0.426881 | 1.249076 | 0.240882 | 0.774194 | 13.741935 | 0.580645 |
His party, AKP, is meeting to try to form a government after losing its majority in a general election for the first time in 13 years.
It secured 41%, a sharp drop from 2011, and must form a coalition or face entering a minority government.
Mr Erdogan has called on all parties to "preserve the atmosphere of stability" in Turkey.
"I believe the results, which do not give the opportunity to any party to form a single-party government, will be assessed healthily and realistically by every party," Mr Erdogan said.
The AKP is now likely to try to form a coalition, but no party has yet indicated it is willing to join forces with it.
Opposition parties may yet try to form a coalition against the AKP.
But Numan Kurtulmus, one of Turkey's four deputy prime ministers, said there would be no government without representation by the AKP.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is meeting AKP cabinet members and officials to assess the election results in Ankara.
After the official final result is declared, he will have 45 days to form a government.
Mr Kurtulmus said another election was possible.
This is potentially a new political era in Turkey.
The AKP still won this election, with over 40% of the vote - a share of the vote that parties in any democracy would crave.
It still has a substantial power base, mainly of the more religious, conservative Turks, who feel liberated by the party and the president.
But the AKP's dominance, the one-man political show that has played out in Turkey for 13 years and polarised this nation, has just taken a very big kick.
Turkey: Bloody nose for Erdogan
Profile: Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The result is a blow to Mr Erdogan's plans to boost his office's powers.
He had been seeking a two-thirds majority to turn Turkey into a presidential republic.
The pro-Kurdish HDP crossed the 10% threshold, securing seats in parliament for the first time.
"The discussion of executive presidency and dictatorship have come to an end in Turkey with these elections," said HDP leader Selahattin Demirtas.
Kurds, women, gays put faith in upstart Turkish party
On Monday morning, the Turkish currency fell to near-record lows against the dollar, and shares dropped by more than 8% soon after the Istanbul stock exchange opened.
The central bank acted quickly to prop up the lira by cutting the interest rate on foreign currency deposits.
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Dumfries and Galloway Council has already lodged a formal objection to Wind Prospect's plans on moorland at Stranoch, near New Luce.
Developers say it could produce enough electricity to meet the needs of more than 40,000 homes.
The council has expressed its concerns about the cumulative impact of the scheme on the area.
The public inquiry, at the North West Castle Hotel in Stranraer, is expected to last three days.
It will be conducted by a reporter appointed by the Scottish government. | A public inquiry is set to get under way into plans for a 24-turbine wind farm in south west Scotland. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32383695"} | 112 | 25 | 0.671274 | 1.384328 | -0.122306 | 0.565217 | 4.130435 | 0.478261 |
Georgia Williams was strangled in a sexually motivated attack by Jamie Reynolds in Shropshire last May.
He was cautioned by West Mercia Police after trying to strangle another teenage girl in 2008, but not charged.
Georgia's mother Lynette called on the watchdog to mount a full investigation.
She said she believed her daughter could still be alive if police had been more thorough during their earlier dealings with Reynolds.
The IPCC said it felt the public interest was best served by West Mercia Police investigating the complaint.
If the family had concerns with the outcome, an appeal could then be made to the IPCC, it said.
The force referred its handling of previous incidents involving Reynolds, 23, to the IPCC in January "with the strong recommendation that an investigation be carried out".
But this month the IPCC - which can mount its own investigation, order an internal case or call on a different police force to investigate - referred the complaint back for it to be handled internally.
Reynolds, branded a "sexual deviant" by a judge, lured Georgia back to his home in Wellington, Shropshire, before he committed her "carefully planned" murder.
In December, a court was told at the time of his arrest, he had 16,800 images and 72 videos of extreme pornography on his computer.
Ordering Reynolds to spend the rest of his life in jail, Mr Justice Wilkie said he accepted a psychiatric assessment of him that found he "had the potential to progressing to become a serial killer".
Mrs Williams, whose husband Steven is a detective with West Mercia Police, said officers should have realised Reynolds was dangerous after he attacked his first victim.
She said: "In 2008, Reynolds mirrored an attack basically that he committed on Georgia in that, he lured a girl round on the pretext of helping him out with a project and then there was a violent attack where he attempted to strangle her.
"Thankfully, she managed to escape, but it has traumatised her and it has totally changed her life."
Both Georgia's family and Reynolds's earlier victim lodged complaints with West Mercia Police over its "poor" handling of the incident, Mrs Williams said.
She said: "As parents, we feel that had it been investigated properly, we wouldn't be in this situation.
"I did get very angry with the police because I felt that if they had dealt with it properly in 2008 everyone would have known about his past, they would have known what he was like with girls.
"Obviously, I wouldn't have let Georgia anywhere near him.
"The young girl that was attacked has put in a complaint as she feels she wasn't dealt with properly at that time and ever since - she was interviewed initially, then that was it she had no other contact with the police.
"His [Reynolds] stepdad did actually go up with more evidence, some photographic evidence that he had found on his computer, and that was presented to the police and that was never acted upon."
The photos were of two girls with nooses superimposed around their necks and a photograph depicting pornographic scenes of a man raping, strangling and killing a girl, she said.
Mrs Williams said photos of Georgia's older sister Scarlett were also found on his hard drives.
Mrs Williams said: "I want the police to change how they view these attacks, I want police officers investigated properly, which is why I want the IPCC to do it, not another force."
IPCC commissioner Derrick Campbell said he had given the complaint "careful consideration".
"I have decided that the public interest is best served by West Mercia Police demonstrating that they are capable of conducting an open, fair and transparent investigation into this matter," Mr Campbell said.
If the force's investigation identified any misconduct "one would expect suitable action to be taken," he added.
"Following a local investigation the complainants will, if dissatisfied with the investigation, have a right of appeal to the IPCC and if necessary the IPCC will be able to direct further investigation," Mr Campbell said.
West Mercia Police said it was deciding how best to proceed with its own investigation.
"We take the concerns around these previous incidents very seriously and following the outcome of our referral to the IPCC we are reviewing their recommendation and how this investigation will progress," a spokesman said.
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As Labour meet for its annual conference in Brighton, the Shadow Scottish Secretary spoke to BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme.
He said: "My position on Trident has not changed - I will not support the renewal of Trident.
"My party leadership has changed, my party is changing, the Scottish party is changing - my view on Trident has not changed. I will not vote to support it.
"I have had the view for a long time, Jeremy [Corbyn] holds that view.
"If we all supported the same position it would make democracy a much less important part of British life. We should welcome the debate."
During the interview, the MP for Edinburgh South defended comments by Mr Corbyn - the party's UK leader - who said the SNP administration in Holyrood had "privatised CalMac", and was also "behind the privatisation of ScotRail".
Mr Murray said Mr Corbyn was raising a good point about "how we do things" and that "key pubic services should stay in public hands". | Scotland's only Labour MP Ian Murray has reiterated his opposition to the renewal of Trident, despite it remaining official party policy. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34377829"} | 256 | 29 | 0.501364 | 1.26464 | 0.579537 | 1.208333 | 9.416667 | 0.625 |
The building, in Boxford, Suffolk, is thought to have been in use as a shop since the early 15th Century.
It closed as a village store at the start of the year due to a change in ownership, but the building's post office counter remained open.
The Boxford Stores name has been retained as the premises reopens as a delicatessen and green grocers.
Roger Loose, treasurer for the Boxford Society, said there was evidence in church wardens' accounts the shop had been in continuous use since 1528 when it was rented to a butcher called Thomas Rastall.
It had also been a drapery and household goods shop in the 19th Century.
"It probably was a shop in the early 1400s, but we have found no documentary evidence of that," he said.
"The chances are that it was left to the church in a will."
The grade II-listed building on Swan Street was bought earlier this year by Lawrence Mott, who teamed up with local egg farmer Robin Windmill.
Mr Windmill said: "There are some others in the UK that claim the oldest shop title, but this is certainly one of the oldest.
"It needed a bit of freshness and quality and customers have told us what they wanted and we'll flex and do what they want us to do."
Julian Fincham-Jacques, chairman of Boxford Parish Council, said: "After years of uncertainty, this is great news.
"We were worried we could lose the post office, but now the store is re-opening, it looks as if the future of the post office is secured as well.
"There is a shop opposite which also sells groceries, but competition should be healthy and we hope there's room for both of them." | A shop, believed to be one of the UK's oldest, is to re-open after being revived by a couple of businessmen. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "24173324"} | 392 | 33 | 0.421255 | 1.169389 | -0.411686 | 1.259259 | 13 | 0.814815 |
Daniel Mark Kelley from Llanelli has been accused of blackmail and money laundering.
He has also been charged in connection with an attack on a college computer system, which later affected coursework submissions and exam administration at Coleg Sir Gar, Llanelli.
He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 12 September.
Police from the Tarian Regional Cyber Crime Unit said he has also been charged with blackmailing an Australian company's employee on four occasions after allegedly exploiting vulnerabilities of the company's website to access confidential customer information.
He is also accused of blackmailing a Canadian employee with emails and phones calls to his home after allegedly hacking into private data.
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The 30-year-old Briton will retain his world number one ranking for now, because Novak Djokovic was forced to retire from his match against Tomas Berdych later on the same day.
But what should Murray and his injured hip do next?
Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker explains how top tennis stars cope with advancing age and chronic injury - and why we should not give up hope of seeing the Scot manage a third triumph on Centre Court.
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The next Grand Slam is the US Open, from 28 August. Murray, the 2012 champion, lost in the quarter-finals in New York last year. Before then, he is scheduled to play at ATP tournaments in Montreal from 7 August and Cincinnati a week later.
Becker: Andy Murray's defeat should not be seen as the beginning of the end of his chances of winning another Grand Slam. Absolutely not.
I think what has happened so far this year has actually proved that, the older you get, the better you are - look at Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal, what Serena Williams was doing and what Venus is doing now. They are all older than him.
Age is only a number, but you only have one body. Andy has to look after his.
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He has got to think long-term, not worry about making the US Open - if he is moving there like he did at Wimbledon, then he won't win it anyway.
So, the worst thing that can happen if he skips New York is that he misses one Grand Slam - that doesn't matter, because the Australian Open is around the corner at the start of 2018.
His ranking should not be a concern either. Again, he will not defend it if he is not healthy, so he should just forget it.
He has been there and done it and he does not have to prove anything anymore that he is good enough to be number one.
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Rafael Nadal pulled out of the French Open in May 2016 with a wrist injury and did not play again until the Rio Olympics in August. He won his 10th title at Roland Garros earlier this year. Roger Federer missed the final five months of 2016 to recover from his knee injury but returned to win the Australian Open in January.
Becker: With this injury, there are limitations to Andy's movement. There are some players who depend more on their serve who can get quick points, but Andy relies on his speed and footwork, which are an integral part of his game.
That is why he needs to be 100% fit. It's no good for him to be 75% - yes, he is maybe good enough to get to the quarters, like he did here, but he is the number one in the world and he enters tournaments to win them.
The Tour is a gruelling schedule and I would give the same advice to Novak too - rest.
They should both look at the examples of Rafa and Roger. Look at what they have done since coming back fully fit.
Nadal struggled last year with injuries, so he took some time off to get fully fit and look what a year he is having.
So maybe that is a lesson learned for Andy and Novak to really take care of their bodies - take their time and get healthy, and don't play when they can't.
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Murray admits he has managed his hip condition since he was 22. He has also suffered from chronic back pain that affected him earlier in his career, and he had surgery on an injured disc in 2013. Djokovic revealed after his Wimbledon exit that his elbow has been bothering him for more than 18 months.
Becker: Injuries are part of tennis. Most players have niggles and pains right through the year and usually you are able to manage them with the physios and recovery schedules you are given.
But in Grand Slams you play longer matches and there is more chance they can flare up.
I understand why Andy played Wimbledon, because it is his number one tournament every year, and he was also the defending champion. He was desperate to make it work.
I was always the same. In hindsight, I should not have played some of my matches but, in the heat of the moment, I always wanted to play the next round or the next event.
But you run the risk of doing yourself more serious damage if you play on, and that happened to me. I had my struggles with certain injuries, especially with my right ankle, and I am paying a heavy price today.
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Andy is now at the point where he needs to be really honest with himself because if he can't run, he can't play.
It looked bad for him on Wednesday but he probably does not know yet what is going to happen next.
I credit him for not wanting to use the hip injury as an excuse for his defeat but he needs to get a couple of opinions from doctors before he thinks about coming back.
Becker won Wimbledon twice as a teenager in 1985 and 1986. His last Grand Slam victory was the 1996 Australian Open at the age of 28. He retired at the age of 32 in 1999.
Becker: Turning 30 is a milestone for a tennis player but it is not a reason to be injured more. That is down to the amount of tennis you play, and how you deal with your injuries.
The attractions for me when I was unable to play were always the same - every week brought another tournament and more ranking points, and of course you want to get back to doing something you love.
I am sure Andy is the same - that desire to keep playing tennis is not his problem, but I think emotions are the wrong things for him to follow right now. He has to follow logic and just think about the rest of his career.
As you get older it does get harder to come back. If it is a new injury every year then it is manageable. If it is the same injury for a number of years, then eventually it can affect your mind-set - and that is the crucial thing here.
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In my experience, your motivation changes with age. It cannot be the same at 30 as it was at 20, and you cannot have the same motivation to win Wimbledon again when you have already won it once, because the second time is not the same.
You have to find different ways to stimulate yourself, because ultimately that is what prolongs your career and means you keep coming back.
Look at Roger Federer, who is playing the best tennis ever at the age of 35 because he has got everything right in the rest of his life too.
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The four players left in the men's singles have won a total of 19 Grand Slam titles between them. Seven-time Wimbledon champion Federer has won 18 of them - Marin Cilic, who won the 2014 US Open, is the only other major winner left in the tournament.
Becker: Roger will never admit it but he is the clear-cut favourite now.
But, having said that, the Wimbledon semi-final is never easy because your opponent has won five times to get there and is full of confidence.
Tomas Berdych will have nothing to lose when he plays him, and for Roger things are different this year.
No man has won eight Wimbledon titles and I think history is as much of an opponent for him as any of the players left in the tournament.
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In the other semi-final, I would give the edge to Cilic over Sam Querrey, because he has won a Grand Slam before and it just feels like his number has come up this year.
Cilic had gone out in the quarter-finals here in the past three years, so he has been knocking on the door for a while, and he has eventually gone through. | Andy Murray's defence of his Wimbledon title ended with him limping to defeat in his quarter-final against Sam Querrey on Wednesday. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40589553"} | 1,760 | 31 | 0.402296 | 0.953166 | -0.197633 | 1.52 | 65.4 | 0.88 |
But when it comes to the top academic jobs they stand accused of failing to give women a fair chance.
In the UK, only 24% of professors are women, even though half of lecturers are women. There are even fewer female university heads, with women accounting for 18% of vice chancellors or principals.
This isn't unique to the UK - a report from the United Nations shows a similar pattern of a lack of female professors across universities in the United States, Japan, China, Brazil, France and South Africa.
Elizabeth Nyamayaro, senior adviser to UN Women, says there needs to be direct intervention to change this, including the controversial idea of imposing quotas.
"There is a need to be pro-active, otherwise it will never happen," she says.
The UN identifies 10 "impact champions" trying to resolve this gender gap - including Paul Boyle, vice chancellor of Leicester University.
Prof Boyle has a target for a 1.5% increase each year in women professors, with the aim of having 30% of professorships held by women by 2020.
"I'll be frank, if we felt we could go faster than that we would," says Prof Boyle.
Other universities are going for bigger increases from lower starting points. The University of Hong Kong will use "compulsory diversity" in its shortlists to almost treble the proportion of women in dean-level positions from 9% to 26%.
The University of Nagoya in Japan will have women-only jobs, with the aim of a 75% increase in senior faculty positions, but only up to 20%.
But why is there such a huge gap in the first place?
Dame Athene Donald, professor of experimental physics at the University of Cambridge, blames a "subtle blend of cultural expectations".
This includes women not aiming high enough and a lack of relevant mentors to support their ambitions.
They can also face bias, "unconscious or otherwise", she says.
Prof Donald, who was her university's gender equality champion, says this might not be overt prejudice, but a corrosive form of "holding women to a different standard".
She has seen "appalling references" for female academics, using words such as "feisty", which would never be used to describe a man.
"It's a system that expects more of a woman than a man," she says.
Prof Donald also believes "blokeishness" among undergraduates is getting worse rather than better, with a "lad culture" of excessive drinking and online sexism.
Ms Nyamayaro, who runs a UN project to engage male support for gender equality, says part of the problem has been that the gender gap has not been presented as everyone's responsibility.
"It's been seen as a women's issue, lead by women and for women. We haven't done a good job in engaging the other half of society," she says.
Another practical obstacle for women academics is that they are more likely to have career breaks to raise a family, disrupting the trajectory of promotions.
Leicester University is adjusting the selection process to address this.
"At the moment we're not judging the CVs and the backgrounds of people fairly, we're not taking into account that women are more likely to have had breaks in their career," says Prof Boyle.
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The number of academic papers and research grants are "often taken as a pretty strong measure of your academic credibility".
Prof Boyle says this can work against women who might have produced less work, but of a higher standard.
"We're working with interview panels to prioritise quality over quantity," he says.
He argues this isn't positive discrimination, but a fairer way of choosing candidates.
But he also says "expectations" can play a part in who gets the top jobs.
"It's driven by the personal expectations of men and women and by the expectations of those who are assessing them."
But Prof Donald says she is "nervous" about the use of quotas. Women who are appointed can face the accusation that they only succeeded because of their gender.
"It's not healthy to feel that might be how you got the job."
But what makes the lack of female professors even more glaring is that universities have an increasingly female population.
The problem at undergraduate level is the shortage of male applicants.
The head of the Ucas admissions service, Mary Curnock Cook, this summer made the remarkable forecast that if present trends continue "girls born this year will be 75% more likely to go to university than their male peers".
This also raises another and unknown part of the current professorial gender gap. Is it a time-lagged, fossilised reflection of the peer group who entered academic jobs 30 or 40 years ago, in a much more male-dominated era?
Two of the world's most famous universities - Harvard and Oxford - have their first ever female heads. In the case of Louise Richardson at Oxford, she is the first woman to lead the university after almost 800 years.
Are the universities already catching up?
Prof Donald is not convinced by this time-lag theory, saying that rising numbers of women students and lecturers has not translated into equivalent increases in female professors.
Either way Prof Boyle says it's not enough to wait for time to resolve this inequality - because it would take another 39 years to even out at the current rate of change.
Is there also something about university cultures that can appear to be full of innovation, but below the surface remain deeply entrenched in tradition?
In the US, Ana Mari Cauce last year became the first female president of the University of Washington.
She said universities can have a strong cultural identity which can make those who don't quite fit in feel like outsiders.
Dr Cauce warned that universities could appear to be publicly supportive of diversity, while at the same time avoiding "difficult conversations" about putting it into practice. | Universities might have a reputation as bastions of Guardian-reading liberalism. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37407540"} | 1,353 | 17 | 0.304865 | 0.851686 | -0.655494 | 0.769231 | 93.230769 | 0.615385 |
The warning comes as organisations set up to prevent wildlife crime begin a new awareness campaign.
Organisers say many native NI species such as deer, salmon and birds of prey are subject to poaching and cruelty.
But uprooting even common wildflowers without the landowner's permission is an offence.
There is a list of 70 protected wildflowers which it is an offence to interfere with in any way, including picking or taking their seeds.
Environment minister Mark H Durkan told the launch of the initiative: "We aim to educate people that sometimes their actions inadvertently cause significant harm to wildlife.
"Of course, there are also other elements which involve much more extreme forms of criminality - those who target wildlife inflicting great cruelty for their personal pleasure or those who illegally exploit or target our wildlife for financial gain.
"Our starting point is to drive increased awareness of what wildlife crime is and why and encouraging them to report it or seek advice, so that we keep this as a priority and work towards dramatically reducing all forms of wildlife crime."
Supt Brian Kee of the Police Service of Northern Ireland said: "Anyone who witnesses suspicious behaviour, or suspects a wildlife crime is taking place or has occurred, contact the police service on 101, or in an emergency ring 999.
"The report will be fully investigated and where evidence of a criminal offence is found the offender will be reported to the Public Prosecution Service with a view to a prosecution."
People can also report wildlife crime using the Crimestoppers number 0800 555 111.
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They were 0.23 seconds behind Lativa's Oskars Kibermanis and Daumants Dreiskens who finished in a time of one minute 51.18secs.
Meanwhile in the second round of the World Cup at Lake Placid, GB's Lamin Deen led his four-man team to sixth.
GB's Mica McNeill and Mica Moore were last in heat two of the women's event.
McNeill eventually righted the sled after it had tipped over to claim the points for finishing and move up to joint 10th in the standings.
Deen and his crew of Mark Lewis-Francis, Andrew Matthews and Tremayne Gilling now lie sixth in the standings.
On Friday, the two-man bobsleigh team of Deen and Judah Simpson finished 15th, 1.43secs behind gold medal winners Steven Holcomb and Sam McGuffie of the United States.
Deen and Simpson lie 17th in the World Cup rankings on 184 points, 118 points behind leader Justin Kripps and and Jesse Lumsden of Canada.
The third round of the World Cup takes place on the weekend of 6-7 January 2017 in Altenberg. | Great Britain's two-man bobsleigh team of Welshman Bruce Tasker and Englishman Toby Olubi won silver at the Europa Cup in Altenberg, Germany on Saturday. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38351317"} | 268 | 40 | 0.54794 | 1.395292 | -0.01633 | 1.655172 | 6.931034 | 0.551724 |
Swansea council put the barriers up on Sunday, two weeks after the death of off-duty Sgt Louise Lucas.
Sue Mann said the barriers should continue into Dillwyn St as the same traffic system was in operation.
The council is meeting on Tuesday to consider changes to the road system.
At present traffic travels in one direction on one side of the dual carriageway, and in two opposite directions on the other.
Ms Mann, 48, from Killay, was on her way out to meet a friend in the city centre when she was hit by a taxi as she tried to cross the two-direction side of the road.
She said: "The road was completely desolate and no traffic. Next thing I knew a taxi just suddenly was there and all I can remember is my head was on the bonnet of the taxi."
She needed stitches and suffered from shock following the incident.
Ms Mann thinks the barriers do not go far enough and would like to see them extended.
"Maybe they have put them up because of that poor policewoman, but I doubt they have put them all the way around to Tesco," she added.
Sgt Lucas was the second person to die on the Kingsway in two years. In 2013, Daniel Foss, 37, was killed after also being hit by a bus.
The coroner investigating Mr Foss's death said the road had a "serious design issue" and called for urgent action. | A woman who was knocked down on The Kingsway in Swansea nine months before a police officer died there after being hit by a bus has claimed new safety barriers do not extend far enough. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32286229"} | 314 | 45 | 0.576249 | 1.489085 | 0.537106 | 1.694444 | 7.972222 | 0.583333 |
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Stoke took the lead through Joe Allen when he poked home after West Brom's Jonny Evans nodded the ball down.
But Rondon headed a corner beyond keeper Lee Grant to thwart Stoke, who still move off the foot of the table.
In Tony Pulis' 1,000th game as a manager, his West Brom side created few chances before Rondon rescued them.
Erik Pieters had a penalty claim denied for Stoke in the second half, while Grant saved superbly from a header from the Baggies' James McClean.
Substitute Peter Crouch had gone close for the hosts before Allen's goal, but the dramatic finish means more frustration for boss Mark Hughes, whose side were knocked out of the EFL Cup by Hull in injury time on Wednesday.
Having just one point before kick-off and languishing at the foot of the table, it was hardly surprising Stoke looked tentative to begin with.
West Brom are a side who appear content to sit back away from home, and a lack of concerted threat from Stoke in the final third of the pitch added to the hosts' worries.
But Marko Arnautovic and Xherdan Shaqiri, Stoke's main creative forces, gradually asserted themselves as the game wore on.
The replacement of the mostly ineffective Wilfried Bony by Crouch went down well with the home fans, and brought greater urgency from Stoke, culminating in Allen's prodded finish from the six-yard line.
The Potters were much improved on their display in last week's 4-1 defeat at Crystal Palace, making Rondon's dramatic leveller from substitute Jonathan Leko's corner all the more galling.
West Brom's display in their manager's landmark game bore many of the hallmarks the Welshman, 58, has instilled in his sides in 24 years of management.
Defensive discipline, tenacity and the willingness to take what few chances fall their way are all traits of Pulis teams, and resulted here in what will be a satisfying point.
Crouch's arrival threatened to shake Evans' solid partnership with Gareth McAuley, but the way West Brom responded to that and Allen's goal will have delighted their boss.
Illness meant he did not have Saido Berahino to throw on from the bench, so Rondon's third goal of the season means Pulis can look forward to game 1,001 from a solid, mid-table position.
Stoke City manager Mark Hughes: "We feel deflated but it was a good performance from us.
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"We're trying to be progressive and we fully deserved the three points. We got one and we have to take it.
"I was encouraged by the performance and we asked questions of them. It's another point on the board. We didn't do too much wrong. I can't complain about our play, they put everything into it.
"Points are like gold dust, so we've got something for our efforts."
West Brom manager Tony Pulis: "That was a deserved point. We conceded a scrappy goal but the reaction of the players was absolutely first class. In the last 20 minutes we really pressed and we got the point we deserved.
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"I'm pleased because if we had lost I'd have been disappointed. We haven't got the array of talent like they have but the work-rate they put in was fantastic.
"We've got a fit group who never give up. We had to respond from going a goal down. I was so pleased with the attitude."
West Brom play the bottom-of-the-table side for the second week in a row when they visit Sunderland on Saturday, 1 October at 15:00 BST. And Hughes will be the manager revisiting old haunts when Stoke play Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday, 2 October at 12:00 BST.
Match ends, Stoke City 1, West Bromwich Albion 1.
Second Half ends, Stoke City 1, West Bromwich Albion 1.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Marko Arnautovic.
Charlie Adam (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Charlie Adam (Stoke City).
James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Peter Crouch (Stoke City).
Nyom (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Stoke City 1, West Bromwich Albion 1. Salomón Rondón (West Bromwich Albion) header from a difficult angle on the left to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jonathan Leko with a cross following a corner.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Bruno Martins Indi.
Substitution, Stoke City. Mame Biram Diouf replaces Xherdan Shaqiri.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Jonathan Leko replaces Matt Phillips.
Substitution, Stoke City. Charlie Adam replaces Joe Allen.
Corner, West Bromwich Albion. Conceded by Glen Johnson.
Attempt blocked. Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Peter Crouch.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Nacer Chadli.
Peter Crouch (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gareth McAuley (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt blocked. Nyom (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nacer Chadli.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. James Morrison replaces Claudio Yacob.
Substitution, West Bromwich Albion. Hal Robson-Kanu replaces James McClean.
Attempt saved. James McClean (West Bromwich Albion) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Claudio Yacob.
Foul by Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City).
Craig Dawson (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Stoke City 1, West Bromwich Albion 0. Joe Allen (Stoke City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Nyom (West Bromwich Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Joe Allen (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nyom (West Bromwich Albion).
Geoff Cameron (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James McClean (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt missed. Peter Crouch (Stoke City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri following a set piece situation.
Joe Allen (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Claudio Yacob (West Bromwich Albion).
Attempt saved. Nacer Chadli (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Salomón Rondón.
Foul by Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City).
Nyom (West Bromwich Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Shawcross (Stoke City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri with a cross.
Substitution, Stoke City. Peter Crouch replaces Wilfried Bony.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Nyom.
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A tribunal found that Maggie Dewhurst, a courier with logistics firm City Sprint, should be classed as a worker rather than self-employed.
As a worker, she would be entitled to basic rights including holiday and sick pay and the national living wage.
City Sprint said it was "disappointed" and will review the ruling "in detail".
While Friday's decision will only apply to Ms Dewhurst, it highlights the working practices of the so-called "gig economy", where people are employed by companies on a job-by-job basis.
It is the first of four legal challenges being taken against courier companies, which include Addison Lee, Excel and E-Courier.
The case follows a similar ruling against the taxi-hailing service Uber in October last year, which found that drivers should be classed as workers rather than self-employed. Uber intends to appeal.
City Sprint said: "This case has demonstrated that there is still widespread confusion regarding this area of law, which is why we are calling on the government to provide better support and help for businesses across the UK who could be similarly affected."
Ms Dewhurst, 29 from South London, said: "I'm delighted that the tribunal ruled in our favour as it has set a legal and moral precedent which others can use to make similar claims."
Ms Dewhurst has been with City Sprint for the past two years, during which time the company classed her as an "independent contractor", or self-employed.
However, she claimed her role was more like that of a worker. "We spend all day being told what to do, when to do it and how to do it. We're under their control. We're not a mosaic of small businesses and that's why we deserve basic employment rights like the national minimum wage," she said.
The tribunal ruling released on Friday stated that "the claimant was a worker of the respondent [City Sprint] and... it unlawfully failed to pay her for two days' holiday".
The Employment Tribunal judge, Joanna Wade, described City Sprint's contractual arrangements as "contorted", "indecipherable" and "window-dressing".
City Sprint said it enjoyed "a good relationship with our fleet" and said that evidence given at the tribunal highlighted that it is "a good company that pays its couriers some of the best rates in the industry".
Paul Jennings, a partner at law firm Bates Wells Braithwaite which represented Ms Dewhurst, said: "Until now couriers have occupied a vulnerable position. They carry out physically demanding work, in dangerous conditions, but cannot take paid leave. In the wake of this judgement, we expect to that thousands of couriers across the capital will look to assert their rights and seek back pay." | A bicycle courier has won an employment rights case in a ruling which could have implications for the "gig economy". | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38534524"} | 604 | 24 | 0.508481 | 1.392412 | 0.213835 | 1.565217 | 24.130435 | 0.869565 |
The improvements at Inveramsay Bridge, near Pitcaple in Aberdeenshire, mean traffic will no longer bottleneck at a set of lights at a railway bridge.
The new bridge takes the A96 over the Aberdeen to Inverness railway line.
Transport Minister Derek MacKay said the upgraded section of road would bring an end to years of delays and frustration for motorists.
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It happened on Main Street in Clady, as Storm Desmond continued to cause disruption in some areas.
Sean McCarry of the Community Rescue Service said: "The water level had risen fairly fast and he was unable to get away from his home in time.
"We managed to get a mechanical digger down the street through the flood waters and get him out."
Mr McCarry said the rescue operation, launched at about 18:15 GMT on Saturday, was a team effort between themselves, Foyle Search and Rescue and the Environment Service.
He said that after the man's ordeal, "he was relieved and happy to get away safely".
The man did not require further medical treatment.
Volunteers for the charity also managed to free a person who was trapped in their car near Strabane, County Tyrone.
Gerard Foley, who lives in Clady, said on Sunday that the village was badly affected by flooding.
"There are houses on the hill, and the rest is just water - Clady is a complete river," he said.
"You couldn't even pinpoint where the river is."
Flooding was reported on a number of roads in counties Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh and Londonderry.
On Sunday, the Gortnagarn Road, at Mountjoy near Omagh, is closed at the bridge due to flooding.
Road users have being warned about the risk of surface water flooding, as well as the risk of fallen trees or branches and other debris.
In Larne, County Antrim, Dunluce Street was closed due to damage to a building and concerns for its stability.
In the Republic of Ireland, thousands of homes were left without electricity and flooding affected many areas, particularly along the west coast.
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Analysis of survival rates for six common cancers found wide variations depending on where patients lived.
Macmillan Cancer Support said there needed to be a major step-up in cancer screening in deprived areas.
The Scottish government said it recognised the need to tackle such variations.
The charity used data from the Information Services Division, part of NHS Scotland which specialises in health statistics.
The analysis examined the survival rate of patients diagnosed between 2004 and 2008 and followed them for five years up to 2013, to reveal the increased risk of death for patients living in deprived areas, compared with affluent areas:
Lung cancer patients faced poor outcomes regardless of their socioeconomic status, the charity found.
The study found lower rates of screening uptake and lower rates of treatment in deprived communities, while surgery was found to have had the most influence on survival.
This suggested those from deprived communities were less likely to receive surgery, possibly because of having more advanced cancer or poorer overall health, the charity said.
Janice Preston, head of Macmillan in Scotland, said: "It's completely unacceptable that someone's chances of surviving cancer could be predicted by their postcode.
"This new research gives us an up-to-date and in-depth understanding of the scale of the cancer survival gap in Scotland.
"It also provides the most comprehensive ever look at the reasons behind it. While the sheer number of factors that impact on survival means there is no magic bullet to solving this problem, this research points to clear areas for improvements, including encouraging earlier diagnosis and the take-up of screening in deprived areas."
Professor Jason Leitch, the Scottish government's national clinical director, told BBC Radio Scotland that he was "not surprised" by the data.
Speaking on Good Morning Scotland, he said people in more deprived areas were less likely to have their cancers detected early. Some would not go to routine screenings while others ignored the symptoms of illness, he added.
The former dentist and oral surgeon said: "I used to see patients with years of ulcers, people who would come in two years after their first symptom. And their cancer would be very advanced.
"Then I would see other people who would come within three weeks of seeing something that was a little bit unexplained and we could always treat that individual quickly and do very well.
"The same thing applies to bowel cancer, to prostate cancer, to lung cancer. So early diagnosis is the key."
Professor Leitch said that, historically, men in industrial areas like Glasgow and Lanarkshire, were reluctant to go to their GP.
But he pointed to the recent success of the Detect Cancer Early programme, which has recruited celebrities including Sir Alex Ferguson and Elaine C Smith to front awareness campaigns.
He added: "There is no question that poverty is one of the contributory factors to early cancer death. And the health service and the social care service is only part of that solution.
"We need solutions around employment, around housing, around education and around criminal justice. So all of that together is how government needs to tackle early cancer death."
Labour's health spokesman Anas Sarwar described the charity's report as "grim and deeply concerning".
He said: "We already know that a person is less likely to get diagnosed and less likely to survive cancer if they come from a poorer background.
"In Scotland, we are seeing the health inequality gap widen not narrow under the SNP government.
"This follows on from official figures which showed that cancer screening rates are going backwards in the poorest communities too."
A spokesman for the Scottish government said that cancer mortality rates had fallen by 11% over the past 10 years but that it recognised the need to tackle variations between least and most deprived communities.
He added: "This is why our cancer strategy, backed by £100m of additional investment, sets out clear actions aimed at reducing health inequalities.
"We're already seeing results, with increased screening participation and earlier diagnosis, however there's much more still to be done.
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The Crescent, in Buxton, Derbyshire has stood empty since 1992 and its conversion into a five star hotel has been planned for more than 10 years.
Various funding packages towards the £46m cost have been found but now the government-backed Local Enterprise Partnership has pledged the final £2m.
Developers said the two-year project could start as soon as April.
The building was designed to exploit an 18th Century interest in the area's mineral waters.
Source: Derbyshire County Council
Planning permission was granted in 2006 to convert the building into a 79-bedroom hotel and spa, with shops, visitor centre and tearoom.
But the project faced problems with funding and legal wrangles.
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) awarded £12.5m in 2006 and £11.3m in 2014. Along with the Local Enterprise Partnership, other funding has come from the Trevor Osborne Property Group, English Heritage, Derbyshire County Council and High Peak Borough Council.
Caitlin Bisknell, High Peak Borough Council leader, said: "A lot of people have worked long and hard to achieve this result and it's a terrific result for them, for the Crescent and for the town. I know many local people have fond memories of the former hotel and baths and are as eager as we are to see work start on restoring this iconic building and bringing it back into use."
Developer Trevor Osborne said: "It has taken a long time to get here but it is tremendous it appears to have been finalised.
"We expect this to have a really positive impact on not only the building but Buxton as a whole.
"We are now vigorously talking to contractors to get things under way."
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Archivist Alexander Singerman, 32, failed to turn up for a meeting at the Gaiety Theatre in Ayr on Wednesday .
Since then he has not been active on social media and extensive police searches have drawn a blank.
His parents have urged him to get in touch, or anyone with information to contact the police.
Mr Singerman, from Shawlands in Glasgow, travelled to Ayrshire on Wednesday morning and left his workplace at Auchincruive later that morning but never arrived for his scheduled meeting at the theatre.
His car was found near his work and he was last seen walking towards St Quivox, near to the Agricultural College on the B743.
His mother Claire Singerman said he was a very personable young man whose disappearance was totally out of character.
She said: "He's got loads of friends who he sees and contacts all the time.
"We are very, very worried because he's not been in contact with any of them - and normally he's in contact with us. All we want is a phone call to know he's safe.
"We don't mind that we've been looking for him for days. We want him home."
Alexander is described as 6ft tall, with short black hair and has a sallow complexion. When he was last seen he was wearing a red and black checked lumber-style jacket.
Ch Insp Annette Morrison of Police Scotland said inquiries both in Ayr and Glasgow had failed to shed any light on his disappearance.
She said: "We have conducted door to door in the area where he was last seen, CCTV, we've had helicopters out.
"We still currently have officers out searching that area. This is so out of character for Alexander. His family and his friends - as well ourselves - are really concerned."
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Jones successfully defended her title by defeating Spain's Eva Calvo Gomez in the -57kg category at Rio 2016.
The 23-year-old said she had found it hard to stay motivated after winning London 2012 gold.
"I've learnt a lot of lessons from London and I'm a lot wiser," she said.
"I know you have to take a good enough break to mentally refresh and just to have a bit of time to yourself and enjoy the success rather than get back in the gym."
Flint's Jones became the youngest British athlete to successfully defend an Olympic title following her 16-7 victory over rival Calvo Gomez.
Jones had already confirmed she wants to defend her Olympic taekwondo title at Tokyo 2020, where victory would secure her place in the sport's history books.
"No-one in taekwondo has ever done three Olympic gold medals," Jones told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"It's amazing to be on the same page as [two-time Olympic champions] Wu Jingyu and Steven Lopez, they're legends in taekwondo.
"They'll be retired and I can do one better and get three gold medals. It definitely spurs me on to think I can do that."
Jones could be joined in Tokyo by her fellow Welsh taekwondo athlete Lauren Williams.
Williams won 67kg gold in her first senior major final at the European Taekwondo Championships in May.
"She's a great training partner in the gym and she really pushed me for Rio so she's really helped a lot," Jones added.
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